[FFmpeg-devel] CI

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 8/20/2025 1:26 AM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > It seems the forgejo CI takes about
> > 13min to do fate on aarch64 and x86-64 and build on win64
> > 
> > Locally i run
> >      fate + install on x86-64
> >      build on x86-32, mingw64, arm32, mips, ppc, x86-64 + shared libs
> >      testprogs alltools examples build on x86-64, x86-32 and arm32
> >      in 2min 44sec
> > 
> > can we improve the speed vs amount of tests ratio ?
> > (its not a problem ATM, i did in fact not even notice as i never waited on it)
> > 
> > Iam just seeing the difference in time and i think there is potential for
> > optimization here
> > 
> > I dont think my box here is really special, just a
> > AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core + Samsung SSD 970 PRO
> 
> Well, the test runners are 4 cores and 8GB of RAM. So that'll be the primary
> difference in speed.
> I think they're performing pretty good for being just that.
> 
> We could of course throw money at the problem and turn them into 16 core
> machines. That would up the hosting cost of the runners from currently
> 3*7.5€ a month to 3*30€ a month. Just for the runners.
> 
> imo the current CI turnaround times are fine. 15-20 minutes per job is fine,
> as long as they can all run in parallel.

Option 1: 15-20 min CI turnaround,  270 € per year
Option 2:  4-5? min CI turnaround, 1080 € per year

we have over 150k $ it seems

Good use of capital can also lead to more donations

I think the main question is, "would we benefit from the faster trunaround"?
or not ?

thx

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