Hi, is there any known issue with file system watching slower build on gradle 7.5.1 ? my local build super slow when file system watching enabled, especially on clean build and some specific kotlin task that generated tons of file
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Eli Graber
01/20/2023, 1:44 AM
Is there any benefit to enabling downside to disabling file system watching for ephemeral CI builds?
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Eli Graber
01/20/2023, 1:44 AM
Is there any benefit to enabling downside to disabling file system watching for ephemeral CI builds?
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lptr
01/20/2023, 9:59 AM
I don’t think the impact would be noticeable for ephemeral CI. That said, why do you want to disable it?
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Eli Graber
01/20/2023, 9:15 PM
I think it's causing issues on GitHub Actions runners since they are low powered machines, and I have a large project (a few hundred subprojects)
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lptr
01/23/2023, 1:27 PM
Hm. What kind of issues? File system watching shouldn’t add any significant CPU or memory overhead. With it disabled, we still track in memory the same things during the build.
What I mean is if you disable FSW that will not decrease the load during a build.
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Eli Graber
01/23/2023, 2:42 PM
I was thinking potentially IO issues, but it looks like in this case the issue were caused by a GitHub Actions issues.