Re: Question about the GitLab runners at cl.net

Robert Goldman <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:23:06 -0500
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Thanks, Dave.  It does appear that there is some incompatibility between 
the ASDF CI script and common-lisp.net.  I pushed the repo to SIFT's 
GitLab installation and it runs successfully there.

The CCL job which times out on gitlab.common-lisp.net finishes in 5m17s 
on SIFT's GitLab runner.

I will do further investigations and comparisons and report back.

On 28 Apr 2026, at 18:14, David Cooper wrote:

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> Might the log reveal one or more bottlenecks in the build or test 
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>  2+ minutes vs. timing out up to an hour points to something 
> pathological going on, our CPUs can't be _that_ much slower. 
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> Dave Cooper
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> From: Robert Goldman <[email protected]>
> To: "Discussion about the development of common-lisp.net,   the site 
> and the project."<[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:02:09 -0400
> Subject: Question about the GitLab runners at cl.net
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> I have been having troubles with the ASDF tests on GitLab.  The ASDF 
> tests are timing out reliably on Clozure Common Lisp after an hour.  
> The same tests on a local Linux server takes only 2m30s.
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> This machine has 16    cores, but the ASDF tests are not 
> multi-threaded.  The processors are Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 
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> Those are pretty good, but by no means cutting edge.
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> So I'm wondering if there's anything funny about the configuration of 
> the GitLab runner.
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> Thanks for any insight.
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> If I can, I will mirror this repo locally and see how the runtime 
> differs on our runner.

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<p dir=3D"auto">Thanks, Dave.  It does appear that there is some incompat=
ibility between the ASDF CI script and common-lisp.net.  I pushed the rep=
o to SIFT's GitLab installation and it runs successfully there.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">The CCL job which times out on gitlab.common-lisp.net fin=
ishes in 5m17s on SIFT's GitLab runner.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">I will do further investigations and comparisons and repo=
rt back.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">On 28 Apr 2026, at 18:14, David Cooper wrote:</p>
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<p dir=3D"auto">Hi Robert,=C2=A0</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">Any &quot;insight&quot; i would claim would be speculatio=
n.=C2=A0</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">Can you watch the log vs. the one you run at home in unde=
r 3 minutes? Might the log reveal one or more bottlenecks in the build or=
 test process? (this is standard ASDF test suite you're talking about?)=C2=
=A0</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">=C2=A02+ minutes vs. timing out up to an hour points to s=
omething pathological going on, our CPUs can't be <em>that</em> much slow=
er.=C2=A0</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">Dave Cooper</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">From: Robert Goldman <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
o" style=3D"color: #777777;">[email protected]</a><br>
To: &quot;Discussion about the development of common-lisp.net,   the site=
 and the project.&quot;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" style=
=3D"color: #777777;">[email protected]</a><br>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:02:09 -0400<br>
Subject: Question about the GitLab runners at cl.net</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">I have been having troubles with the ASDF tests on GitLab=
=2E  The ASDF tests are timing out reliably on Clozure Common Lisp after =
an hour.  The same tests on a local Linux server takes only 2m30s.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">This machine has 16=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0cores, but the=
 ASDF tests are not multi-threaded.  The processors are Intel(R) Xeon(R) =
CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">Those are pretty good, but by no means cutting edge.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">So I'm wondering if there's anything funny about the conf=
iguration of the GitLab runner.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">Thanks for any insight.</p>
<p dir=3D"auto">If I can, I will mirror this repo locally and see how the=
 runtime differs on our runner.</p>
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