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CI wall clock was dominated by queueing, not work. Main run 35725366619 took 392s end to end while its longest job took 214s: at most ~16 jobs ran at once, and the last test lane did not start until 234s in. Each job also pays ~25-35s of checkout, mise and install, which many short jobs spent more time on than on their actual work (otel-helpers: 19s job, 0s of tests).

What changed

This branch carries the earlier test commits (auto-sized test lanes, jsdom to native Chromium, Vitest 5 fixtures, stack-branch PR validation) plus one commit that consolidates the jobs:

  • Test lanes, 21 -> 9. plan-tests.py now uses per-file rates measured on CI (backend 1.6s, api 2.3s, web 0.55s, ...) instead of guesses that were off by up to 3x, targets 140s of tests per lane instead of 100s, and packs the Bun suites (cli, otel-helpers) into one lane. New planner test covers the Bun packing.
  • TypeScript shards, 9 -> 6. knip folds into quality; web build and typecheck share web; api and packages typecheck share typecheck-core (still 2 turbo tasks at a time to bound tsc memory).
  • Archive probes, 8 -> 4 legs. crash-recovery, calibrate and gc keep their own leg. The five short probes (7-27s each) run back to back in quick, which runs every probe even after a failure and reports all failures together. They use distinct ports and their own mktemp roots with trap cleanup.
  • Web perf, 7 -> 4 legs. The four short Chromium groups run sequentially on one machine. Playwright is already workers: 1, so frame timings still see one browser at a time; the two projects split on the @cross-browser tag, so each test runs exactly once.
  • Memory. apps/api and apps/ai move from the threads pool to forks, as packages/backend did in fix(backend): run the test suite in forked processes so CI stops being OOM-killed #975 after the threads pool was OOM-killed on Linux. Bigger lanes would make that failure more likely. Both suites pass locally at 2 workers (api 32s, ai 24s).

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  • Expected: ~22 fewer jobs, roughly 12-15 fewer runner minutes per full run, wall clock from ~390s toward ~250s. Unverified until this PR's own run.
  • The largest test lane (api + ui) is estimated at ~175s including setup, under the 240s run-tests.py budget but closer to it than before.
  • Test lanes keep --maxWorkers=2 on the 4-vCPU runner. Raising to 3 would be ~1.4x faster per lane at ~50% more memory; left alone on purpose.
  • Renamed shards (web, typecheck-core, archive quick) start with cold turbo caches on their first run.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Local binary downloads now retry transient failures up to five times, with a five-second delay between attempts, while avoiding retries for permanent not-found errors.
  • Tests

    • CI test distribution has been rebalanced to reduce lane count and improve execution efficiency.
    • Bun suites can share lanes while preserving their required settings.
    • Vitest uses forked processes for improved isolation.
    • Web performance and native archive checks now distribute and report results more clearly.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CI performance documentation to reflect revised test planning and lane allocation.

- Plan test lanes from workspace discovery and benchmark estimates
- Enforce bounded test duration and coverage with unit tests
- Upgrade Vitest to 5 and share the migrated PGlite fixture with evals
The last main run spent 392s wall clock for a 214s longest job: at most ~16
jobs ran at once and the last test lane started 234s in. Every job also pays
~30s of setup, which many short jobs spent more time on than their work.

- Test planner uses per-file rates measured on CI and a 140s lane target,
  and packs Bun suites together: 21 lanes -> 9.
- TypeScript: knip folds into quality, web build + typecheck share a shard,
  api + packages typecheck share a shard: 9 -> 6.
- Archive: the five short probes run back to back in one leg: 8 -> 4.
- Web perf: the four short Chromium groups run sequentially on one machine,
  still one browser at a time: 7 -> 4.
- apps/api and apps/ai run Vitest in forks, as packages/backend does since
  the threads pool was OOM-killed on Linux.
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The changes retune CI test planning, consolidate workflow shards, group archive and browser workloads, switch AI and API Vitest execution to forked processes, and prevent retries for permanent local binary download errors.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Duration-based test lane planning
.github/scripts/plan-tests.py, .github/scripts/test_plan_tests.py, docs/ci-performance.md
The planner uses workspace-specific timing estimates, a 140-second lane target, a 4-second startup cost, and first-fit-decreasing packing for Vitest and Bun suites. Tests and documentation cover shared Bun lanes and the revised lane output.
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.github/workflows/ci.yml
TypeScript, quality, web, and typecheck jobs use revised shard assignments. Setup steps install only Bun and Node.
Archive and performance workload grouping
.github/workflows/ci.yml, apps/web/perf/service-map.perf.spec.ts
Native archive probes run through grouped matrix legs with aggregated failures. Browser performance tests use revised shards, parallel service-map tests, and multiple Playwright projects.
Forked Vitest process configuration
apps/ai/vitest.config.ts, apps/api/vitest.config.ts
AI and API Vitest configurations use forked processes. API test isolation remains enabled.

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Resilient binary download
scripts/build-local-binary.sh
The libchdb download retains five retries and five-second delays, but no longer retries permanent HTTP errors such as 404 responses.

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A GitHub release 500 failed the crash-recovery archive leg in the bundle
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TS and test jobs install only bun and node from mise. firefox and webkit
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<title>Sharding | Playwright</title> https://playwright.dev/docs/test-sharding Note that Playwright can only shard tests that can be run in parallel. By default, this means Playwright will shard test files. Learn about other options in the parallelism guide. ... Sharding can be done at two levels of granularity depending on whether you use the testProject.fullyParallel option or not. This affects how the tests are balanced across the shards. ... Sharding with fullyParallel ... When `fullyParallel: true` is enabled, Playwright Test runs individual tests in parallel across multiple shards, ensuring each shard receives an even distribution of tests. This allows for test-level granularity, meaning each shard will attempt to balance the number of individual tests it runs. This is the preferred mode for ensuring even load distribution when sharding, as Playwright can optimize shard execution based on the total number of tests. ... Sharding without fullyParallel ... Without the fullyParallel setting, Playwright Test defaults to file-level granularity, meaning entire test files are assigned to shards (note that the same file may be assigned to different shards across different projects). In this case, the number of tests per file can greatly influence shard distribution. If your test files are not evenly sized (i.e., some files contain many more tests than others), certain shards may end up running significantly more tests, while others may run fewer or even none. ... - With`fullyParallel: true`: Tests are split at the individual test level, leading to more balanced shard execution. - Without`fullyParallel`: Tests are split at the file level, so to balance the shards, it&`#39`;s important to keep your test files small and evenly sized. - To ensure the most effective use of sharding, especially in CI environments, it is recommended to use `fullyParallel: true` when aiming for balanced distribution across shards. Otherwise, you may need to manually organize your test files to avoid imbalances.

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Enable test-level sharding for the service-map jobs.

Both jobs select only perf/service-map.perf.spec.ts. Playwright 1.62.1 uses file-level sharding when fullyParallel is disabled. test.describe.configure({ mode: "parallel" }) parallelizes tests within the file but does not enable test-level sharding. One shard can therefore run the entire file while the other runs no tests. Pass --fully-parallel to both shard invocations.

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browser: chromium
project: chromium-performance
specs: perf/service-detail.perf.spec.ts
- shard: chromium-smoke
projects: chromium-performance
specs: perf/service-map.perf.spec.ts
playwright-args: --shard=2/2
playwright-args: --fully-parallel --shard=1/2
- shard: service-map-2
browser: chromium
projects: chromium-performance
specs: perf/service-map.perf.spec.ts
playwright-args: --fully-parallel --shard=2/2
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml around lines 803 - 808, Update the playwright-args
for both service-map shard jobs to include --fully-parallel alongside their
existing --shard=1/2 and --shard=2/2 options, enabling test-level sharding for
perf/service-map.perf.spec.ts.

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--retry already covers 5xx and timeouts; --retry-all-errors also retried a
permanent 404 or 403 five times before the leg reported it.
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Makisuo merged commit 24cf8bf into main Sep 22, 2026
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