Very slow meteor bundle

[sverrirsig]

First of all, thank you for this project. It is a huge life-saver in a k8s migration I'm performing.

just wanted to get feedback on this and if it's abnormal:

I'm using the Dockerfile with native dependancies, the following step:

Step 8/24 : RUN bash $SCRIPTS_FOLDER/build-meteor-bundle.sh

is taking a very long time (~22 minutes) in CircleCI. Granted, the project is quite large.

Is this expected or are there any suggested performance enhancers I could try out?

Thank you.

[GeoffreyBooth]

Without knowing anything about your project, I would guess it’s slow because one of your native dependencies doesn’t ship with binaries for musl/Alpine Linux and those binaries are getting compiled during install time. You could remove the -alpine from the two FROM lines to use Ubuntu Linux instead, which your dependency is more likely to be shipping a prebuilt binary for. You could also update the dependency itself to include binaries for musl; I submitted a PR to node-fibers to add support for musl binaries to that, which is a dependency of Meteor itself (the acceptance of that PR was what led to me being able to support the faster, default Dockerfile that assumes no native dependencies that require compilation at install time).

[sverrirsig]

That sounds like a likely culprit. Thank you for taking the time to respond @GeoffreyBooth!