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Summary

Documentation only. Corrects the runner-shape section of the developer's guide
on two points, one of which is a mistake of mine in #342.

The four-vCPU measurements never reached the guide

#342's commit message and its review replies both describe a guide table
carrying the four-vCPU column and the point that peak memory depends on the
shape. The guide does not contain either. The edit was written against wording
that an earlier commit on the same branch had already replaced, so it matched
nothing and wrote nothing, and make markdownlint passed exactly as it would
on any unchanged file.

Nothing shipped wrong: the workflows, the timeouts and the cargo cap all landed
correctly, and the measurements are recorded in the pull request and in the
rollout plan. What was missing is the durable copy, in the place a future
contributor would look before questioning the runner shape.

The section now carries:

Measure 8 vCPU, build-test cold 8 vCPU, build-test warm 8 vCPU, coverage-upload cold 4 vCPU, build-test warm
Peak used memory 8,812 MiB 7,907 MiB 6,442 MiB 3,889 MiB
Peak used disk 95,609 MiB 95,418 MiB 90,998 MiB 94,537 MiB
Least free disk 101,691 MiB 101,882 MiB 106,302 MiB 53,166 MiB
Wall 39m14s 24m38s 29m17s 16m47s

with the rule those numbers support: peak memory is a property of the shape,
not only of the workload, because cargo scales parallelism with the processor
count. A peak measured on one shape cannot be carried to another.

Which half of the acceptance evidence is measured

The warm limb is measured: 16m47s on four vCPUs against a 25-minute bar.

The cold limb is not, and the guide now says so instead of leaving a reader to
assume otherwise. The shape change altered no sccache key, so the run intended
as the four-vCPU cold writer found the store already populated and came back at
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 the 12 GB bound looks safe by a wide margin.

That is inference, not measurement, and it is labelled as such. The next
dependency bump or cache eviction will produce a real cold run and settle it.

Also recorded

Why RUN_RUST_CARGO_WAIT_TIMEOUT had to rise from 1,800 s before the shape
could shrink, since the eight-vCPU cold writer already ran 1,757 s and the cap
applies to one cargo command rather than to the job; and that free disk fell
from 99 GiB to 52 GiB, the only measure that moved materially.

Validation

Documentation only, so the Markdown gates are the relevant ones.

Gate Result
make markdownlint pass
make nixie pass

No code, workflow or test file is touched.

Summary by Sourcery

Clarify the runner-shape evidence by documenting measurements for both shapes and explicitly separating measured results from inferences about four-vCPU cold runs.

Enhancements:

  • Document runner resource measurements across both eight-vCPU and four-vCPU shapes, including wall times and shape-specific constraints.
  • Clarify that peak memory depends on runner shape and that measurements must be evaluated against the target shape.
  • Distinguish measured warm four-vCPU performance from the unconfirmed inferred cold-run behavior, while recording the watchdog and disk considerations.

Documentation:

  • Update the developer guide with the evidence and rationale supporting the runner-shape sizing and timeout configuration.

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.

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Updates the developer guide with shape-specific runner measurements and explicitly separates measured four-vCPU warm evidence from the inferred cold-run safety case, while documenting the timeout and disk considerations behind the runner change.

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Change Details Files
Expands the runner-shape evidence table to distinguish processor counts and include four-vCPU results.
  • Adds four-vCPU warm measurements for memory, disk, free disk, and wall time.
  • Labels existing measurements as eight-vCPU samples.
  • Updates the disk-floor statement to reflect the observed 52 GiB minimum.
docs/developers-guide.md
Clarifies how memory evidence supports the runner choice and distinguishes measured results from inference.
  • Explains that Cargo parallelism and peak memory vary with vCPU count.
  • Documents that the four-vCPU cold result was not measured because the cache was already populated.
  • States the observed four-vCPU range and labels the projected cold-run safety margin as unconfirmed inference.
docs/developers-guide.md
Records the operational constraints and tradeoffs behind shrinking the runner shape.
  • Explains why the per-command Cargo timeout had to increase before reducing vCPUs.
  • Notes that free disk, rather than memory, was the materially changed four-vCPU metric.
  • Retains the requirement to keep samplers and remeasure the shape over time.
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Summary

  • Document four- and eight-vCPU runner measurements for memory, disk usage, free disk, and wall time.
  • Explain that Cargo scales parallelism with processor count, so peak memory depends on runner shape.
  • Distinguish measured four-vCPU warm-run results from inferred cold-run memory results.
  • Record Cargo watchdog and disk-space constraints for four-vCPU runners.
  • Validate the documentation with make markdownlint and make nixie.

Walkthrough

Update the developer guide with resource measurements for eight- and four-vCPU runners. Document memory sizing, inferred results, Cargo timeout, and disk-space constraints.

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Runner resource guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document runner sizing guidance
docs/developers-guide.md
Record wall time, memory, disk usage, and free space for both runner sizes. Use the cold eight-vCPU cache-writing run as the memory floor. Mark the four-vCPU cold result as inferred. Document the increased Cargo wait timeout and lower free disk on the four-vCPU runner.

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Eight cores measure, four cores learn
Memory peaks where compilers turn
Cold caches mark the sizing floor
Cargo waits, and disks hold more
Clear guidance now stands at the door

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 01c71

The runner-sizing guidance adds useful measurements, but its resource table needs a descriptive caption to meet documentation conventions and remain clearly identifiable.

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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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