Hi. We have some builds runing on github CI and taking a lot of time in configuration. The problem, reading a build scan, seems to be that downloads from plugins.gradle.org are very slow. As an example, downloading https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/org/apache/apache/21/apache-21.pom took 26 seconds, at 641 bytes/second. Is this a known problem on the plugins servers, or is it some other network issue?

I've seen that too. The plugin portal is apparently under heavy load those days.

Happy to at least see we’re not the only ones suffering 😉

if you use the official Gradle GH action, there's a dependency cache so it should work OOTB. Otherwise you'll have to do it yourself: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_resolution.html#sub:shared-readonly-cache

Thanks, I see. I was thinking of something more transparent, where the distributed build cache (which is already used to store and get task outputs) would also be used to store and get plugins. But my colleague is setting up the cache as explained there, thank you.

I usually use the company Artifactory as cache for all the dependencies, but anyway it's not instant like the cache shown here (which I also use)

FYI the issue with the plugin portal is resolved and performance should be back to normal … or even better 🙂