ci: make the matrix retry budget fit inside the job cap - #245
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The retry budget was larger than the job cap on both engines, so the last attempt was always killed partway and the cell reported `cancelled`. Measured on master run 32643567648 (post-#243), the 5 JRuby cells: jruby-10.0 rails81 suite 713s, no hang, 1 attempt -> 12m02 pass jruby-10.0 rails71 suite 545s + 6m hang -> 15m t/o; attempt 2 clean at 543s -> 24m20 pass jruby-10.0 rails80 attempt 1 hung -> 15m t/o; attempt 2 killed at the 25m cap -> cancelled jruby-10.0 rails72 same -> cancelled jruby-head rails81 same -> cancelled 3 of 5 JRuby cells gate nothing. The cause is arithmetic, not the driver: max_attempts 3 x timeout_minutes 15 = 45 min against timeout-minutes 25. Attempt 3 could never start, and attempt 2 had only 25 - 15 - 0.7 = 9.3 min to finish a run that measures 9-12 min -- so whether a cell survived a hang came down to which gemfile it drew. MRI has the same shape, smaller: 3x3 = 9 against a cap of 8. - JRuby job cap 25 -> 31, so 1 + 15 + 15 fits. - max_attempts 3 -> 2 on both engines, since 3 was never reachable. A doubly-hung JRuby cell now costs 31 min instead of 25, but today's 25 min buys no verdict at all. Coverage, drivers and the full-ci/cron opt-in model are unchanged. Also adds the concurrency group Lint never had, so superseded PR pushes stop running the linter to completion.
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Reviewer's GuideAdjusts CI workflow retry budgets so they fit within job-level timeouts, turning previously cancelled matrix cells into real gating failures, and adds concurrency control to the lint workflow to avoid redundant runs on superseded pushes. Sequence diagram for CI matrix retry behaviorsequenceDiagram
participant CI as GitHub Actions
participant Cell as Matrix cell
participant Suite as Test suite
CI->>Cell: Start attempt 1
Cell->>Suite: Run tests
alt attempt 1 hangs or times out
CI->>Cell: Start attempt 2
Cell->>Suite: Run tests again
alt attempt 2 succeeds
Suite-->>Cell: Pass
Cell-->>CI: Passing cell
else attempt 2 fails or times out
Suite-->>Cell: Failure
Cell-->>CI: Honest failure
end
else attempt 1 succeeds
Suite-->>Cell: Pass
Cell-->>CI: Passing cell
end
Flow diagram for CI retry budgets fitting job capsflowchart LR
Before["Before: 3 attempts × timeout\nexceeds job cap"] --> Cancelled["Last attempt killed\ncell reports cancelled"]
After["After: 2 attempts\nfit within job cap"] --> Verdict["Pass after retry\nor real failure"]
Cancelled -.-> After
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The matrix retry budget was larger than the job cap on both engines, so the last attempt was always killed partway and the cell reported
cancelled. A gate that cancels is worse than no gate, so this PR makes the budget fit.Before — master run 32643567648 (post-#243, the most recent full matrix not cut short by a newer push)
JRuby is 74% of the bill and 3 of its 5 cells gate nothing. Per-cell, from the logs:
Finished in 713.4s, no hang, 1 attemptFinished in 544.8sthen 6m of dead air →Timeout of 900000ms hit; attempt 2 clean at 543.0sThe operation was canceledat the 25m job capThe root cause is arithmetic, not the driver
max_attempts: 3×timeout_minutes: 15= 45 min, againsttimeout-minutes: 25.25 − 15 − 0.7 = 9.3min to finish a run that measures 545s–713s. Whether a cell survived a single hang came down to which gemfile it drew — rails71 (545s) squeaked in, rails80/rails72/head did not.MRI has the same shape, smaller:
3 × 3 = 9against a cap of8. Measured MRI suite is 128s, so it rarely bites, but the third attempt is equally unreachable.Changes
1. JRuby job cap 25 → 31 min.
1 (setup) + 15 + 15 = 31. Two full attempts now always fit, so a hang on attempt 1 no longer decides the cell.2.
max_attempts3 → 2, both engines. Three was never reachable under either cap; it only ever produced a half-run killed at the cap. Two is what actually runs.Attempt timeouts are unchanged. 15 min is ~26% headroom over the slowest measured clean JRuby attempt (713s) and the suite is still growing — tightening it to save dead-air minutes would just re-create the #243 dead gate.
3. Lint gets the concurrency group it never had — Test has had one since it was written, so superseded PR pushes were running the linter to completion (~25–60s each, 10 runs today).
After (projected — workflow changes only take effect once merged)
Worst case per JRuby cell rises 25 → 31 min, but today's 25 min buys no verdict at all. Applied to run 32643567648 the three cancelled cells would have had a real second attempt; the one cell that got one passed it. Coverage, driver combinations, and the
full-ci/cron opt-in model are untouched.Everything above the "After" table is measured from run 32643567648 and its job logs. The "After" numbers are projected from those measured attempt durations.
Found and deliberately not changed
Cache hit for: setup-ruby-bundler-cache-v6-…, 46 MB, ~2s restore), keyed per ruby-version × gemfile. apt/libvips cached. Total setup is 15–39s across all 25 cells.Test Driversdoes not overlap the matrix. It runsrake test:integrationonly (20–60s) across 3 real browsers × 2 image drivers; the matrix runs the fullrake test. 5.5 min for the whole leg.functional-test(2m41). Making the separate Lint workflow a prerequisite would need a cross-workflow wait for a 30s job — not worth the machinery.download-artifact), but it is a 1s upload with 1-day retention. Not worth a diff.test-minimal-setupre-runs the full 600-test suite (2m45) to prove the plainapt-get install libvipspath works. Real signal for new contributors, and it is the fastest job in the run.Recommendations, not done here
full-cilabel, saving roughly 1500 min/day at the cost of matrix frequency, (c)cancel-in-progress: falseon master, which multiplies the cost. This is a coverage/frequency call for the maintainer, not something to change unilaterally.jruby-headhas beencancelledin every run checked (7/7) and iscontinue-on-error: true, so it has never gated anything. This PR gives it a real budget; if that proves too expensive at ~25–31 min per master push, restricting it to the weekly cron loses no gate signal by construction.JRUBY_OPTS: --devplus-XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1are startup-optimised (C1 only, no C2) — the right call for a CLI, arguably the wrong one for a 9–12 minute batch run. Worth oneworkflow_dispatchA/B before anyone tunes anything else; unmeasurable from outside CI, so untouched here.max_attempts: 1and a JRuby cap of 16. The retry exists solely for that teardown hang. That would roughly halve the JRuby bill. A comment intest.ymlrecords this.Summary by Sourcery
Make matrix retries fit within CI job limits so JRuby and MRI cells can complete with meaningful results.
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