sometimes action is very slow

[ognevny]

I have set up action that uses msys2 for building Cargo project. most recent workflows went very long because setup-msys2 took ~3 minutes (compared to ~1.5 mins that was before).

maybe it's GitHub issue, but I want to let you know

[Biswa96]

Could you compare the time in CI log to find exactly which step(s) took more time?

[ognevny]

Could you compare the time in CI log to find exactly which step(s) took more time?

the same workflow

slow: https://github.com/ognevnydemon/ognlib/actions/runs/7301001096/job/19896742737 normal: https://github.com/ognevnydemon/ognlib/actions/runs/7301001096/job/19896743164

[jeremyd2019]

I've noticed that sometimes apparently at the end of the action it just hangs out for a couple of extra minutes. I first noticed this after the switch to node20.

[ognevny]

in this action it ran 4.5 minutes!

[dimitre]

[edit] ignore this comment, @Biswa96 already clarified how to do that ~~I also noticed this: https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks/actions/workflows/build-msys2.yml it would be great if we had an elapsed time for each step of the action to see which parts take more time. Thank you~~

[Biswa96]

it would be great if we had an elapsed time for each step of the action to see which parts take more time.

The raw CI log has timestamps prepended with every line.

[jeremyd2019]

In my case it seemed to be taking time after the last line in the step's log, before starting the next step.

[lazka]

Comparing various slow and fast jobs, the difference seems to be that only jobs which upload the cache hang at the end.

[lazka]

Downgrading to node16 seems to fix it :(

[lazka]

Upstream issue https://github.com/actions/toolkit/issues/1578

[lazka]

new release is out