Cloud build is extremely slow today

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I’m experiencing extremely long build times today. Last week it was much faster.

My project uses a combination of public images from Docker Hub and locally-built containers. Local build with balena push <hostname> on my RPi4 takes about 60 seconds, but balena push to the cloud has been running for the past 25 minutes now and is still working on pulling the postgres:13 image from Docker Hub. Doing the initial cache pull took ages too (I didn’t time it, but something like 7-8 minutes).

wax% balena push terranode
/ Packaging the project source...[Warn]     
[Warn]    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Warn]    The following .dockerignore file(s) will not be used:
[Warn]    * /Users/sgrimm/work/balena/terranode/.dockerignore
[Warn]    * /Users/sgrimm/work/balena/rhizo-server/.dockerignore
[Warn]    By default, only one .dockerignore file at the source folder (project root)
[Warn]    is used. Microservices (multicontainer) applications may use a separate
[Warn]    .dockerignore file for each service with the --multi-dockerignore (-m) option.
[Warn]    See "balena help push" for more details.
[Warn]    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[Info]       Starting build for terranode, user steven10
[Info]       Dashboard link: https://dashboard.balena-cloud.com/apps/1758873/devices
[Info]       Building on arm01
[Info]       Pulling previous images for caching purposes...
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[terranode]  Step 1/17 : FROM balenalib/raspberrypi4-64-debian-python:3.8.5-buster-build AS build
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[chromium]   [=========================================================] 100%
[postgres]   [>                                                        ] 0%
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Hi Steven,
have you tried just once ? It might be worth restarting the build. I see no reports on problems with the arm builders but sometimes a builder might have a hick-up and chances are you get a different machine when you try again.
Cheers Thomas

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It does seem to have improved; my latest push finished in about 10 minutes.