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Build on Github Action test-macOS frequently fail due machine run out of disk space #3878
Description
The Github Actions start to fail frequently on test-macOS build step due to the current build on mac is about 18GB which seems more than the allocated disk space on the runner (14GB limit IIRC). See this for a failure example:
test-macOS
You are running out of disk space. The runner will stop working when the machine runs out of disk space. Free space left: 47 MB
This currently impacts all the Pull Requests on nodejs cores.
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richardlau commentedon Aug 30, 2024
GitHub only offers 14 GB of storage on their "standard" runners: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#standard-github-hosted-runners-for-public-repositories
Unlike for Linux and Windows, GitHub do not offer more storage on their "large" (i.e. paid) runners (still 14 GB for macOS): https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-larger-runners/about-larger-runners#specifications-for-general-larger-runners
Apparently the amount of available disk space available decreased (albeit still with 14 GB available and therefore meeting GH's documented available storage) with GH's 20240827.4 macOS runner image -- there's a general discussion around this over in: actions/runner-images#10511
I'm aware of various hacks/scripts for the Ubuntu runners to reclaim space (see actions/runner-images#10386) but not for macOS.
I do not know if there is anything we can do to reduce the size of Node.js macOS builds -- they appear to be significantly larger than their Linux equivalents.
targos commentedon Aug 30, 2024
Should we disable macOS jobs for now?
targos commentedon Aug 30, 2024
The problem is that we would have 0 CI coverage for arm64 macOS if we do it (Jenkins CI currently only tests on x64)
jakecastelli commentedon Aug 30, 2024
Do we need Android sdk for macOS arm64 build? Any chance we can temporarily remove it (with a quick patch) from the
test-macOSjob? seems like it can claim back ~12GB storage space.build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
targos commentedon Sep 1, 2024
Fixed by nodejs/node#54658
ci: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner
build: reclaim disk space on macOS GHA runner