Re: 504 gateway time-outs (was: FYI: The elapsed time shown for beefy24 [main-amd64] and beefy23 [150amd64-default] stopped over 2hrs ago)

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 3:33 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 28/02/2026 10:32, Mark Millard wrote:
>> > …
>> >
>> > The following got "504 Gateway Time-out" when I tried them:
>> >
>> > <
>> https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy24/build.html?mastername=main-amd64-default&build=pdf4f957ea181_s178d0b5b8d
>> >
>> >
>> > <
>> https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy23/build.html?mastername=150amd64-default&build=df4f957ea181
>> >
>>
>>
>> Both somewhat slow to load, however they do load for me.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
> beefy22 is showing hte same issues. Something is tying up the builders
> with builds hanging in "build-depends" and "lib-depends" for very long
> periods of time, as long as over 4 hours) with high load averages. This has
> been going on for months and seems to be getting worse. Chromium builds
> which used to take around 20 hours are now running around 40 and I really
> don't think that this is just code bloat. At times, about half of the
> active builds are in some state other than "build"; mostly one of the
> depends states which should never take long as all dependencies are built
> before a build is started.
>
> After some time passes (often hours) things clear up. Dependencies are
> suddenly loaded in a few minutes or less. Note that things do continue to
> complete, but the 10 minute averages are in single digits and frequently go
> to 0. During this time, my connection to beefy22 will timeout and sometimes
> I can't establish a connection.
>
> I don't have any special access to the machines... just via pkg-status, so
> I'm fairly limited in any analysis.
>

Just before I started my last message,  all was well, but I last saw were a
dozen builds in one of the "depends" states and "impulse" at 74 when I lost
my connection. I can reconnect to the beefy22 status page, but it has not
updated for several minutes.
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