Re: Use windows VMs instead of windows containers on the CI - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Justin Pryzby
Subject Re: Use windows VMs instead of windows containers on the CI
Date
Msg-id 20230110152211.GE9837@telsasoft.com
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In response to Use windows VMs instead of windows containers on the CI  (Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Use windows VMs instead of windows containers on the CI
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 03:20:18PM +0300, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I propose using windows VMs instead of containers, the patch is attached.
> Currently, windows containers are used on the CI, but these container images
> are needs to get pulled on every CI run, also they are slow to run.

+1

> There is more than 2x speed gain when VMs are used.

One consideration is that if windows runs twice as fast, we'll suddenly
start using twice as many resources at cirrus/google/amazon - the
windows task has been throttling everything else.  Not sure if we should
to do anything beyond the limits that cfbot already uses.

-- 
Justin



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