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heavybuilder request for nodejs-electron #13545

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opened 2026-09-05 04:07:40 +00:00 by gordonmessmer · 8 comments

gordonmessmer commented

2026-09-05 04:07:40 +00:00

Description of request

A new "nodejs-electron" package, derived from the chromium package and similar to cef, will be added to Fedora. The dist-git has been provisioned, but scratch builds fail (OOM).

Please add this package to the heavy builders.

### Description of request A new "nodejs-electron" package, derived from the chromium package and similar to cef, will be added to Fedora. The dist-git has been provisioned, but scratch builds fail (OOM). Please add this package to the heavy builders.

kevin commented

2026-09-05 16:23:10 +00:00

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Ugh. Another one. ;(

Does this build on s390x? or just other arches?

Ugh. Another one. ;( Does this build on s390x? or just other arches?

gordonmessmer commented

2026-09-05 18:04:45 +00:00

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ExclusiveArch: x86_64 aarch64

ngompa commented

2026-09-05 18:46:58 +00:00

Technically it should be able to build on ppc64le too, since chromium does. So only s390x is excluded.

gordonmessmer commented

2026-09-05 19:12:08 +00:00

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I mean... we could try ppc64le, but I would consider such a build experimental since the electron project does not test or release for that platform. (AFAICT)

What is the CPU core count and memory profile of a heavy builder?

I mean... we could try ppc64le, but I would consider such a build experimental since the electron project does not test or release for that platform. (AFAICT) What is the CPU core count and memory profile of a heavy builder?

ngompa commented

2026-09-05 19:24:45 +00:00

@gordonmessmer wrote in #13545 (comment):

I mean... we could try ppc64le, but I would consider such a build experimental since the electron project does not test or release for that platform. (AFAICT)

That's true, though we do have desktop users on Power Systems (mostly Talos folks and whatnot). That's why they've contributed the support to Fedora's chromium packages to support it.

What is the CPU core count and memory profile of a heavy builder?

At least with the x86_64 ones, it's 64 cores and 128GB of RAM. For AArch64, it's 80 cores and 384GB of RAM. I don't think we have heavy builders for ppc64le.

@gordonmessmer wrote in https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/13545#issuecomment-1353784: > I mean... we could try ppc64le, but I would consider such a build experimental since the electron project does not test or release for that platform. (AFAICT) > That's true, though we do have desktop users on Power Systems (mostly Talos folks and whatnot). That's why they've contributed the support to Fedora's chromium packages to support it. > What is the CPU core count and memory profile of a heavy builder? At least with the x86_64 ones, it's 64 cores and 128GB of RAM. For AArch64, it's 80 cores and 384GB of RAM. I don't think we have heavy builders for ppc64le.

gordonmessmer commented

2026-09-05 22:34:22 +00:00

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At least with the x86_64 ones, it's 64 cores and 128GB of RAM. For AArch64, it's 80 cores and 384GB of RAM. I don't think we have heavy builders for ppc64le.

This is probably the wrong place to discuss it, but we should probably set tasksize for chromium and derived packages so that it's usually possible to build without a heavy builder:

# Require 4 GB of RAM per CPU core
%global _smp_tasksize_proc 2048

_smp_tasksize_proc defaults to just 512M. Increasing it to 2G shouldn't make the build any slower on the heavy builders, but might allow it to succeed on more non-heavy builders.

> At least with the x86_64 ones, it's 64 cores and 128GB of RAM. For AArch64, it's 80 cores and 384GB of RAM. I don't think we have heavy builders for ppc64le. This is probably the wrong place to discuss it, but we should probably set tasksize for chromium and derived packages so that it's usually possible to build without a heavy builder: ``` # Require 4 GB of RAM per CPU core %global _smp_tasksize_proc 2048 ``` _smp_tasksize_proc defaults to just 512M. Increasing it to 2G shouldn't make the build any slower on the heavy builders, but might allow it to succeed on more non-heavy builders.

kevin referenced this issue from a commit

2026-09-08 16:29:27 +00:00

koji_hub: add 2 packages to heavybuilder channel

kevin referenced this issue from infra/ansible

2026-09-08 16:29:39 +00:00

koji_hub: add 2 packages to heavybuilder channel #3664

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kevin commented

2026-09-08 16:34:13 +00:00

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At least with the x86_64 ones, it's 64 cores and 128GB of RAM. For AArch64, it's 80 cores and 384GB of RAM. I don't think we have heavy builders for ppc64le.

Well, no, it's variable for x86_64 at least. cpus:

But all of those are more than the defaul buildvm's by a long way.