[GHC DevOps Group] CircleCI job accounting question

[Ben Gamari]

Manuel M T Chakravarty <manuel.chakravarty at tweag.io> writes:

>> Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>:
>> 
>> Really we ought to just determine the CPU count dynamically. This is
>> what the validate script does. Unfortunately it seems the CircleCI does
>> not provide an environment variable with this information and variables
>> defined the YAML environment section aren't interpolated, so doing so
>> will be a bit messy.
>
> Yes, is annoying. On the other hand, you’d think, we are not the only people having this problem.
>
Indeed we aren't; for instance, see [1] and [2].

[1] https://discuss.circleci.com/t/how-to-add-a-path-to-path-in-circle-2-0/11554
[2] https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circle-ci-v2-and-android-memory-issues/11207/9

>> Yes, this is a different issue from the one we were seeing earlier. I
>> believe Mateusz has also opened a ticket about it.
>
> I am just looking at the CircleCI page while ”ghc / ghc / master #289” as it is running. It all works nicely, but now it is somehow hanging in the ”Uploading artefacts” step for already more than 22min. Interestingly, it does report
>
> Uploading /tmp/artifacts to tmp/artifacts
> Uploaded /tmp/artifacts/ghc-8.3.20171114-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz
>
> which suggests that it is actually finished with uploading. It just doesn’t realise that it is done…
>
Indeed. CircleCI support replied to my request this morning.
Unfortunately they haven't yet offered a solution. I'll continue to
update you all as the ticket advances.

On another note, what is the status of Appveyor? Has anyone started on
this? If not I may try bringing over Hadrian's Appveyor configuration.

Cheers,

- Ben

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