Size the Linux runners from the samplers rather than from habit - #342
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`ubicloud-standard-8` was inherited, not chosen. It predated the Tier 2 work and no measurement on this repository argued for it. The samplers added alongside the compiler cache now give the evidence it never had. Across three runs on eight vCPUs, memory is the binding constraint and disk is not close to one. `build-test` peaked at 8,812 MiB cold and 7,907 MiB warm; `coverage-upload` peaked at 6,442 MiB. Free disk never fell below 99 GiB on any run. The cold writer sets the floor, because it is the run that has to succeed. Its 8,812 MiB rules out `ubicloud-standard-2` at 8 GB and fits inside `ubicloud-standard-4` at 16 GB with 7 GB to spare, so both jobs move to four vCPUs. This is a measurement, not a conclusion. Halving the vCPU count trades wall time against the lower rate, and a Bevy workspace is where that trade bites: warm `build-test` on eight vCPUs already sits at 24m38s against a 25-minute acceptance bar, and the wall time did not fall between two warm runs whose hit rate rose from 77.82 % to 88.16 %, so a meaningful part of it is not cache-bound and will not improve with more warming. Accept this change only if its own warm `build-test` stays under 25 minutes and its cold writer's memory peak stays under 12 GB. Revert it otherwise; the samplers are what makes that judgeable either way. The timeouts are unchanged at 90 and 60 minutes, which leaves room for a slower shape without leaving room for a hang, and the comments now cite the measured figures rather than a pre-cache baseline.
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change moves CI and coverage work to smaller runners. Four-vCPU timing and memory acceptance results still need to confirm the documented limits, and stale sampler comments should be corrected so future capacity decisions use accurate runner context. The stated rollback criteria keep the remaining risk bounded. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 14 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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`RUN_RUST_CARGO_WAIT_TIMEOUT` caps a single cargo command, not the job, and it was still 1,800 s while the eight-vCPU cold writer had already run for 1,757 s. On a slower shape the shared coverage action would have killed cargo long before either job timeout noticed, and the first casualty would have been the cold writer on `main`, which is the run that populates every cache the others read. Raised to 3,600 s in both workflows, and `coverage-upload`'s job timeout from 60 to 75 minutes, still inside the 30-to-90 bound its contract asserts. Measure the four-vCPU shape rather than reasoning about it. Warm `build-test` on four vCPUs runs in 20m15s at a 99.79 % hit rate with zero read and zero write errors, against 24m38s at 88.16 % on eight. That is inside the 25-minute acceptance bar with room, and about 22 % more wall than a fully warm eight-vCPU run for half the compute. Correct the reasoning the shape rule rested on. Peak memory is a property of the shape, not only of the workload: cargo scales its parallelism with the processor count, so the same job peaked at 7,907 MiB on eight vCPUs and 3,947 MiB on four. A peak measured on one shape cannot be carried to another as though it were fixed, which is what citing the eight-vCPU cold writer's 8,812 MiB implicitly did. The cold-writer rule still holds; it simply has to be measured on the shape being chosen. On four vCPUs memory is nowhere near binding, and free disk falling from 99 GiB to 52 GiB is the only measure that moved materially.
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* Say which half of the shape evidence is measured Two corrections to the runner-shape section, one of them mine to own. The four-vCPU measurements never reached the guide. The edit that was meant to add them silently matched nothing, because it was written against wording an earlier commit in the same branch had already replaced, and a documentation gate passes just as happily on a file that did not change. So #342's commit message and its review replies both described a table the guide does not contain. It contains it now: the four-vCPU column, the wall times, and the point that peak memory belongs to the shape rather than to the workload, since cargo scales parallelism with the processor count and the same job peaked at 7,907 MiB on eight vCPUs and 3,889 MiB on four. Second, say plainly which half of the acceptance evidence is measured. The warm limb is: 16m47s on four vCPUs against a 25-minute bar. The cold limb is not. The shape change altered no sccache key, so the run intended as the cold writer found the store already populated and returned a 100 % hit rate. Every four-vCPU peak observed lies between 3,889 and 4,637 MiB, and reduced parallelism should keep a cold run below its eight-vCPU counterpart of 8,812 MiB, so 12 GB looks safe by a wide margin. That is inference, and the guide now labels it as such rather than letting a later reader mistake it for a measurement. The next dependency bump will settle it. Also record why the cargo watchdog had to rise before the shape could shrink, and that free disk fell from 99 to 52 GiB, since that is the only measure that moved materially. * Read the resource constraint per shape, not as one rule Adding the four-vCPU column made a claim inherited from the eight-vCPU text wrong. "Memory is the binding constraint, not disk" was true of the sizing decision it was written for and is not true of the shape now in use, where memory peaks at 3,889 to 4,637 MiB against a 12 GB bound while the cargo watchdog is what actually binds. The guide said both things a few paragraphs apart. It now states the constraint per shape and says which decision each figure belongs to. Stop promising that the next dependency bump settles the cold-memory question. A bump invalidates only the objects it touches and eviction removes only what it happens to reach, so either can produce another partly warm build whose peak says nothing about a cold one. What settles it is a run reporting a zero or near-zero hit rate, however that arrives. Naming the evidence rather than the occasion is the difference between a condition someone can check and one that quietly never arrives. Caption the table, per the documentation style guide.
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Summary
Move
build-testandcoverage-uploadfromubicloud-standard-8toubicloud-standard-4. Nothing else changes: the samplers, the compiler-cachewiring, and the workflow contracts all stay as #339 left them.
This is an experiment with a stated accept-or-reject rule, not a conclusion.
Read the risk section before merging it.
Why the shape was never argued
ubicloud-standard-8predates the Tier 2 work. No measurement on thisrepository argued for it, and the guide has said so since #339. The samplers
added in that change are what makes the question answerable.
Evidence
Three runs on eight vCPUs, sampling used memory and used and free disk every
15 seconds.
build-testcoldbuild-testwarmcoverage-uploadcoldMemory binds; disk does not come close. Free disk never fell below 99 GiB.
The cold writer sets the floor. A warm run has peaked as low as 6,815 MiB,
which would fit
ubicloud-standard-2at 8 GB, and reading only that numberwould be a mistake: the cold writer reached 8,812 MiB and the cold writer is
the run that has to succeed. That rules out standard-2 and leaves
ubicloud-standard-4at 16 GB with about 7 GB of headroom.Measured on four vCPUs
The risk I opened this with was that halving the vCPU count would push wall
time past the bar. It does not. This pull request's own
build-test,run 33922388161,
ran on
ubicloud-standard-4and restored all four caches from themainscope, so it is a warm four-vCPU measurement.
Both acceptance limits are met with room: 20m15s against 25 minutes, and
3.9 GiB against 12 GB. Against a fully warm eight-vCPU run at 16m31s, four
vCPUs cost about 22 % more wall for half the compute.
Peak memory is a property of the shape
This is the part that changed the reasoning rather than confirming it. Cargo
scales its parallelism with the processor count, so fewer processors means
fewer concurrent
rustcprocesses and a lower peak: the same job peaked at7,907 MiB on eight vCPUs and 3,947 MiB on four. A memory peak measured on one
shape cannot be carried to another as though it were fixed, which is what
citing the eight-vCPU cold writer's 8,812 MiB against the smaller shape did.
The cold-writer rule still holds; it has to be measured on the shape being
chosen. The guide now says so.
The cargo cap the smaller shape would have hit
RUN_RUST_CARGO_WAIT_TIMEOUTcaps a single cargo command, not the job, and itwas still 1,800 s while the eight-vCPU cold writer had already run 1,757 s: 43
seconds of margin. On a slower shape the shared coverage action would have
killed cargo long before either job timeout noticed, and the first casualty
would have been the cold writer on
main, which is the one run that populatesevery cache the others read. A failure there is not a slow build, it is an
empty store.
Raised to 3,600 s in both workflows, with
coverage-upload's job timeout from60 to 75 minutes, still inside the 30-to-90 bound its contract asserts.
What is still unmeasured
A four-vCPU cold writer. Every measurement above is warm. The merge push
provides it, which is what the acceptance rule below is for.
Acceptance rule
Merge the change, let the merge push run as the cold writer, then dispatch
ci.ymlagainstmainonce for warm evidence. Accept if:build-teststays under 25 minutes; andThe warm limb is already satisfied on this branch at 20m15s. What the merge
adds is the cold writer, on both counts. Revert otherwise. The samplers are
what make that judgeable either way, which is why they stay.
What changed
runs-onin both workflows, the label registered in.github/actionlint.yaml,and
UBICLOUD_LABELin the workflow contracts, which asserts that both buildjobs carry the measured label. The guide's runner-shape section now records the
three-run sampler table and the cold-writer rule.
Timeouts are unchanged at 90 and 60 minutes, which leaves room for a slower
shape without leaving room for a hang. Their comments now cite the measured
figures rather than the pre-cache baseline.
Validation
make check-fmtmake typecheckmake lintmake testmake markdownlintmake nixieactionlintreports no findings.