Build delays for open source project

It is a way better now. Not sure if it’s related to a fix itself or it’s just cause people don’t work on a weekend :slight_smile: Hope for the first one


No the queue is still long.
It is better because during the weekends there is less build

see here for the graph https://www.traviscistatus.com/

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Yeah, the cap has now dropped to around 560 jobs - which was only briefly hit on Saturday but we have been hard at that since 15:00 UTC on Sunday though it might just be descending from that peak now it is 23:00 UTC Sunday night.

Of course the situation is not going to improve tomorrow without action by the Travis people - and as things stand I wouldn’t be surprised if the backlog exceeds 10,000 (10K) by Wednesday and does not fall to less than 3K for the rest of the week-days after that point…

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Yes, we are hitting this problem as well. It’s going to cause major problems very soon if it’s not resolved. Or, I suppose I can migrate over to travis-ci.com.

Will it really fix the issue? The ‘Travis CI Status’ link from from *.org and *.com leads me to the same page. If *.com projects builds on different pool of machines, how can I look for a status of the queue? Just to be sure that it’s reasonable to move to *.com now and that it will solve the issue we’re all facing.

We switched to travis-ci dot com this morning and are no longer experiencing the delays.

The project I code for had made the switch some time ago and that is being impacted as far as I can tell.

The Linux builds maxed out again at 07:00 UTC and have been hard against that limit (558) ever since - the back log ramped up from zero at that time and plateaued today at around 8K at 15:45 UTC - and has not significantly dropped from that since then…

I’m trying to figure out what exactly is involved in migrating—I know a year or two ago the process wasn’t super straightforward, but it looks like the documentation is here: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/migrate/open-source-repository-migration

I’ll try this with a few of my repos soon—the ~535 worker cap is getting really annoying, as every weekday now, my builds basically don’t start until a day later!

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I remember running into this last time too… I am unable to migrate any of my repositories (I have some set up in .com, some older ones in .org.

On the migrate tab, for all the repositories that aren’t already in .com, I see:

And after a few minutes trying everything under the sun, I finally found there’s a ‘Sign up for the beta’ button on my travis-ci.org that I had to click to enroll my “organization” (which was actually my personal account, which already had many projects enrolled on travis-ci.com… so it was unintuitive, but now I can migrate repos.

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So does move from *.org to *.com really helps? I see comments that contradict each other.

@AenBleidd My builds at travis-ci.com run fine.

Yes, I am experiencing delays too! Let me try travis-ci.com now.

Migrating has helped for me.

But I’m only migrating forks so far, because logs are not migrated and it’s unclear if they will be:

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In case you missed the announcement (I did), it turns out that open source will no longer be offered free service on travis-ci.com either.

I had realized my builds stopped working on .org [1] , and was moving them all over to .com – where they started working as expected again – but I hadn’t realized that was just buying me a tiny bit of time.

[1] Despite the FAQ saying “we’re making a number of changes to the travis-ci.org infrastructure to ensure the service will remain as reliable and available to you as it always has been until the migration is completed.”, we all just discovered that was not the case. https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/migrate/open-source-repository-migration#q-will-travis-ciorg-become-unreliable

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Your blog @geerlingguy does seem to hit the nail on the head - and it ain’t positive reading for FOSS projects folks…

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The build delays continued every day last week to Friday 6 Nov 2020. Things have caught up at the weekend. I had a time a couple of hours ago when nothing seemed to start - but that was “in the middle of the night” US time. Maybe there was some restarting of workers happening or…

https://www.traviscistatus.com/#month clearly shows that there are not enough workers during the week. It does almost catch up during US/EU midnight to early morning hours.

Looks like open-source has to be done in Australia, at the weekends or in the early hours of the morning.

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As was pointed out in Builds hang in queued state - #6 by Montana linked to earlier in this topic, Travis is moving workers from travis-ci.org to travis-ci.com in preparation to fully close .org (or rather, make it read-only) around the New Year.

So you need to migrate to .com to stop experiencing delays. Note the caveats:

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