When using a binary cache store, the queue runner receives NARs from
the build machines, compresses them, and uploads them to the
cache. However, keeping multiple large NARs in memory can cause the
queue runner to run out of memory. This can happen for instance when
it's processing multiple ISO images concurrently.
The fix is to use a TokenServer to prevent the builder threads to
store more than a certain total size of NARs concurrently (at the
moment, this is hard-coded at 4 GiB). Builder threads that cause the
limit to be exceeded will block until other threads have finished.
The 4 GiB limit does not include certain other allocations, such as
for xz compression or for FSAccessor::readFile(). But since these are
unlikely to be more than the size of the NARs and hydra.nixos.org has
32 GiB RAM, it should be fine.
Same problem as d744362e4a.
at /nix/store/ksvsbr7pg4z69bv6fbbc8h7x7rm2104m-gcc-4.9.3/include/c++/4.9.3/bits/predefined_ops.h:166
__last@entry=..., __comp=...) at /nix/store/ksvsbr7pg4z69bv6fbbc8h7x7rm2104m-gcc-4.9.3/include/c++/4.9.3/bits/stl_algo.h:1827
__comp=...) at /nix/store/ksvsbr7pg4z69bv6fbbc8h7x7rm2104m-gcc-4.9.3/include/c++/4.9.3/bits/stl_algo.h:4717
To use the local Nix store (default):
store_mode = direct
To use a local binary cache:
store_mode = local-binary-cache
binary_cache_dir = /var/lib/hydra/binary-cache
To use an S3 bucket:
store_mode = s3-binary-cache
binary_cache_s3_bucket = my-nix-bucket
Also, respect binary_cache_{secret,public}_key_file for signing the
binary cache.
This removes the "busy", "locker" and "logfile" columns, which are no
longer used by the queue runner. The "Running builds" page now only
shows builds that have an active build step.
Previously, priority bumps could take a long time to get noticed if
getQueuedBuilds() was busy processing zillions of queue
additions. (This was made worse by the reintroduction of substitute
checking.)
This allows Hydra to use binaries from available binary caches. It
makes the queue monitor thread quite a bit slower, so if you don't
want to use binary caches, it's better to add "--option
build-use-substitutes false" to the hydra-queue-runner invocation.
Fixed#243.
They will show up in machineTypes as (e.g.) x86_64-linux:local instead
of x86_64-linux. This is to prevent the Hydra provisioner from
creating machines for steps that are supposed to be executed locally.
It's easier for the Hydra provisioner to put host public keys in the
machines file than to separately manage the known_hosts file
(especially when the provisioner runs on a different machine).
This is necessary because the required system type can become
available later (e.g. by being provisioned by the
auto-scaler). However, in the future, we may want to fail steps if
they have been unsupported for more than a certain amount of time.
For example, steps that require the "kvm" feature may require a
different kind of machine to be provisioned. This can also be used to
require performance-sensitive tests to run on a particular kind of
machine, e.g., by setting requiredSystemFeatures to something like
"ec2-i2.8xlarge".
"hydra-queue-runner --status" now prints how many runnable and running
build steps exist for each machine type. This allows additional
machines to be provisioned based on the Hydra load.
Builds can now emit metrics that Hydra will store in its database and
render as time series via flot charts. Typical applications are to
keep track of performance indicators, coverage percentages, artifact
sizes, and so on.
For example, a coverage build can emit the coverage percentage as
follows:
echo "lineCoverage $pct %" > $out/nix-support/hydra-metrics
Graphs of all metrics for a job can be seen at
http://.../job/<project>/<jobset>/<job>#tabs-charts
Specific metrics are also visible at
http://.../job/<project>/<jobset>/<job>/metric/<metric>
The latter URL also allows getting the data in JSON format (e.g. via
"curl -H 'Accept: application/json'").
This prevents a race where multiple threads see that machine X is
missing path P, and start sending it concurrently. Nix handles this
correctly, but it's still wasteful (especially for the case where P ==
GHC).
A more refined scheme would be to have per machine, per path locks.
Derivations with "preferLocalBuild = true" can now be executed on
specific machines (typically localhost) by setting the mandary system
features field to include "local". For example:
localhost x86_64-linux,i686-linux - 10 100 - local
says that "localhost" can *only* do builds with "preferLocalBuild =
true". The speed factor of 100 will make the machine almost always win
over other machines.
Otherwise we never recover from reset daemon connections, e.g.
hydra-queue-runner[16106]: while loading build 599369: cannot start daemon worker: reading from file: Connection reset by peer
hydra-queue-runner[16106]: while loading build 599236: writing to file: Broken pipe
...
The error is now handled queueMonitor(), causing the next call to
queueMonitorLoop() to create a new connection.
Having a hundred threads doing I/O at the same time is bad on magnetic
disks because of the excessive disk seeks. So allow only 4 threads to
copy closures in parallel.
While sorting machines by load, the load of a machine
(machine->currentJobs) can be changed by other threads. If that
happens, the comparator is no longer a proper ordering, in which case
std::sort() can segfault. So we now make a copy of currentJobs before
sorting.
There is a slight possibility that the queue monitor and a builder
thread simultaneously decide to mark a build as finished. That's fine,
as long as we ensure the DB update is idempotent (as ensured by doing
"update Builds set finished = 1 ... where finished = 0").
If a build A depends on a derivation that is the top-level derivation
of some build B, then we should process B before A (meaning we
shouldn't make the derivation runnable before B has been
added). Otherwise, the derivation will be "accounted" to A rather than
B (so the build step will show up in the wrong build).
Aborted builds are now put back on the runnable queue and retried
after a certain time interval (currently 60 seconds for the first
retry, then tripled on each subsequent retry).
Hydra-queue-runner now no longer polls the queue periodically, but
instead sleeps until it receives a notification from PostgreSQL about
a change to the queue (build added, build cancelled or build
restarted).
Also, for the "build added" case, we now only check for builds with an
ID greater than the previous greatest ID. This is much more efficient
if the queue is large.
It just makes things unnecessarily complicated. We can just exit
without cleaning anything up, since the only thing to do is unmark
builds and build steps as busy. But we can do that by having systemd
call "hydra-queue-runner --unlock" from ExecStopPost.
If multiple threads create a step for the same build, they could get
the same "max(stepnr)" and allocate conflicting new step numbers. So
lock the BuildSteps table while doing this. We could use a different
isolation level, but this is easier.
This removes the need for Nix's build-remote.pl.
Build logs are now written to $HYDRA_DATA/build-logs because
hydra-queue-runner doesn't have write permission to /nix/var/log.
