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Using actions - is ghcr.io suppose to be faster than docker.io #27080
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I’m trying to cut down the build/test time in a python based container. |
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I can’t recall where I read it, but someone said that the servers for GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages would be in the different data centers. That would explain why GHCR isn’t faster in workflow runs. It might not be a local data transfer at all, and Docker might happen to be closer to the servers that run the workflows or just be a tad faster or have more bandwidth alotted. |
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Thank you for the response. Separate data centers is the only situation that makes sense of the telemetry I’ve received. I have not tried to measure the network latency between ghrc and actions but whatever the case - I lost a bit of time porting over and reverting back to dockerhub along with the 2 months of dead silence from this community - lost me as an adopter. |
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GHCR still has benefits over Dockerhub, mainly images not expiring and no hard pull limits. But images not being hosted near where actions run is still a bit odd. I believe there was a mention of more caching options. Could be years away, however. |
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I’m a long way off of tripping hard pull limits although I’ll keep ghrc in mind as a mirror in the event I get popular. |
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Thai Pangsakulyanont reported improved performance building and pushing to GHCR. |
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I've been sitting here waiting over an hour and it's not even half way downloaded I would say run for the hills, do not use, you will retire before it downloads. |
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Painfully slow pulling images from ghcr.io here in Australia, pulling a 5GB layer takes over an hour on a 1Gbit link! |
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Any solution for that ?? |
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I can’t recall where I read it, but someone said that the servers for GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages would be in the different data centers. That would explain why GHCR isn’t faster in workflow runs. It might not be a local data transfer at all, and Docker might happen to be closer to the servers that run the workflows or just be a tad faster or have more bandwidth alotted.