1820122 - firefox-android: Optimize `external-gradle-dependencies` task on Focus and Fenix

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

In bug 1807237, we optimized the task in charge of caching external gradle dependencies on Taskcluster. However, just optimized it in the case of Android-Components by splitting the cache per Android-Component.

Focus and more importantly Fenix couldn't be optimized the same way because they're just a single gradle project. As a result, the Fenix task takes between 45 and 75 minutes to complete 🐌 Thus, we need to find a better way to optimize these tasks.

On top of my head, I'm thinking of using bigger GCP instances which results in more CPU cores but also better IO on drive. We should also make sure we use "local SSDs"[1] instead of network-bound ones.

I hope this is going to be enough. Otherwise, we have to find another way of optimizing these jobs.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-mobile/firefox-android] Bug 1820122 - WIP try b-android-xlarge (#1190)

Comment 2

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/JohanLorenzo
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/281ee0bb712e5b091bbfca21c2f245500be57ab4
[main] Bug 1820122 - Use `b-android-xlarge` to speed up external-gradle-dependencies jobs

Comment 3

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown] (pto, back Jun 10)]

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/pull/1790 removes the gradle 'test' task from external-gradle-dependencies-fenix; that seems to reduce run time by about 60 minutes.

Comment 4

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/gbrownmozilla
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/19dd4939a9e0080dc83584b768d1494acd17aa20
[main] Bug 1820122 - Do not run gradle 'test' in external-gradle-dependencies-fenix