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  2. JENKINS-38640

Unstash painfully slow for large artifacts (due to compression?)

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    • workflow-api-plugin

      When sending a stash across the network, the data transfer can be significantly slower than the underlying network. This seems to be due to some slow on-the-fly compression happening during the transfer. Using the following script, the Unstash phase takes 1-2 seconds for 10MB of /dev/zero, and 49 seconds for 10MB of /dev/urandom. The Stash phase consistently takes 1-2 seconds. This makes me think there's a compression step, since /dev/zero should compress much faster than /dev/urandom.

      node {
          deleteDir()
          stage "Stash"
          sh "dd if=/dev/zero of=data bs=1M count=10"
          stash name: 'build_outputs', includes: 'data'
          sh "date"
          node('lab') {
              deleteDir()
              stage "Unstash"
              unstash 'build_outputs'
              sh "ls -al"
          }
      }
      

      This looks similar to JENKINS-36914, in particular this comment:
      https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-36914?focusedCommentId=268472&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-268472

      I'm not calling this a dupe of that because the original text refers to stash only, and this bug seems isolated to unstash. Also this is on x86, not ARM.

            andresrc Andres Rodriguez
            jkoleszar John Koleszar
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