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Problem

  • bun run ci:slowest gives a wrong time to a file that fails in its parallel bucket. One file took 599.93 s there and 149.85 s alone. Its row said maxMs: 149852.
  • The runner prints that run as --- <path> - K failing in the parallel batch (X.XXs) (scripts/runner.node.ts:1686). The parser read only [N/M] lines (scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts:47).
  • No row says that it adds up attempts.

Fix

  • failedBucketAttempt() in scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs reads the line, and ci:slowest adds that attempt to the file's time. A row gains attempts and maxAttemptMs. Its other fields keep their meaning.
  • update-test-durations.mjs skips the same line, and stays so: for the shard table the run alone is the right sample.
  • Verified: test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts, 21 new cases. Those on ci:slowest fail on main. Three builds give that file 576, 750 and 762 s.
  • Self-reviewed: 9 concerns raised, 8 addressed. Not taken: a tracking issue (Notes lists the gaps).

Background

  • A bucket is one bun test --parallel process for many files. A file that fails there runs again alone.
  • test/expected-durations.json holds a median duration per file. The runner packs shards with it.
  • Considered the bucket attempt as the durations sample. An earlier push did that, and review showed it wrong in two cases.

Downsides

  • Rows change: 42 of the top 500 of build 137632 get another maxMs, all AOT test files.
  • Still wrong: a failed try among the files that build many executables prints no seconds.
  • Still wrong: a bucket run with no junit failure case prints no line and is not counted.
Notes

The file of the Problem section. test/aot/a-regexp-literal-of-two-layers-is-made-once.test.ts on debian 13 x64-asan. Build 137815: it passed in its bucket, 575.53 s, rank 4. Build 137632: - 1 failing in the parallel batch (599.93s) (the bucket reached its limit of 10 minutes), then 149.85 s alone, rank 139. Build 137627: 599.73 s in the bucket, then 162.73 s alone, rank 131.

Size of the defect, and for how long. Each of the three builds has 128 to 132 such lines in 58 or 59 of its 165 test-bun jobs. That is 12,968 s to 14,672 s of attempt time per build.

  • 378 of the 389 lines name AOT test files: 73 files under test/aot/, and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. 380 lines are on three lanes: debian 13 x64-asan (171), x64 (109) and aarch64 (100). 92 lines per build are files that fail every time alone too.
  • The other 11 lines are 7 files with 22 s together. Example: test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts, 5.61 s in the bucket and 6.72 s alone.
  • At the head of AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 (open), 35 of those 73 files are deleted and 38 are in excludeFiles of test/parallel-allowlist.json, so none of them is in a bucket. After that the reader is for the few files per build that fail in a bucket for another reason, and for builds that already ran.

What attempts counts. The attempts whose time is in maxMs, on maxPlat: a serial run, each [attempt #K], a run in a bucket (one that passed, or one that failed and has its line), a parallel-safe dispatch. maxAttemptMs is the longest of them. A row with 1 attempt has maxAttemptMs equal to maxMs. Build 137815, top row before this change: test/aot/modules-in-a-test-run-twice.test.ts, 786694 ms. It is 4 failed attempts alone of 196.5 to 196.9 s. With the bucket attempt of 186.26 s the row is 972954 ms, attempts: 5, maxAttemptMs: 196933.

The durations decision. update-test-durations.mjs skips the same line. This PR leaves that so: for a file that fails in its bucket, the sample stays its run alone. The script changes by one comment that states the rule, and the tests pin the rule on four logs. It gives the same samples as main on all 495 logs.

  • The table is for the packing of shards. A file that fails in its bucket gets a flaky or failed annotation, and isGood in scripts/update-parallel-allowlist.mjs rejects a file with one. The scheduled step regenerates the table and the allowlist together (.buildkite/update-test-durations.yml). So the file leaves the buckets and runs alone next, and filesAtOnce (scripts/runner.node.ts:3343) does not divide its duration by 3.
  • On the table's five lanes the three builds have 283 such (file, job) pairs: 37,066 s in the bucket, 11,451 s alone. The bucket time would overstate those files about 3 times.
  • The seconds of an interrupted bucket run are the time from its dispatch to the interruption (abort_all and mark_cut_short in src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Coordinator.rs). 20 of the 389 lines are such runs, with 154 s to 600 s.
  • An earlier push of this PR sampled the bucket attempt and dropped the run alone. Review found both points, and f649963 took that change out.

Rows of 0 ms. A file whose attempts all take 0 ms had an empty maxPlat, on main too. Builds 137815 and 137632 each have one such row: a program compiled ahead of time whose failure is printed in the same millisecond as its header. maxPlat now starts as the first platform that ran the file, so the row has a platform and the attempts of that platform. No other row changes.

Removed. parseLog of scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts. ci:slowest folds each log with addLog. The tests of that parser fold through addLog too, with their assertions unchanged.

Measurements (main b1305dd against this branch, on the 495 job logs of builds 137632, 137627 and 137815):

  • 495 logs: ci:slowest changes 389 (file, job) entries (+40,625 s) and 0 of the 320 logs without the line.
  • Build 137632, top 500: 42 rows change maxMs, 12 change maxPlat, 9 files enter, count stays 7472. The file of the Problem section: rank 139 to 5, maxMs 149852 to 749782, attempts: 2, maxAttemptMs: 599930. Builds 137627 and 137815: 47 and 41 rows change maxMs.
  • ci:slowest 137632 500: JSON 74,164 to 99,701 bytes, table 43,535 to 48,097 bytes (wc -c).
  • --- regex executions in ci:slowest per 165-log build (137632): 614,536 to 5,376. All regex executions: 10,058,625 to 9,449,465. One startsWith("--- ") per line that is no [N/M] header replaces them (exec counter).
  • Maps constructed per build (137632): 7,637 to 7,545. Objects retained by the aggregate: 7,473 to 7,637. The difference is the 163 (file, platform) pairs with more than one attempt, of 71,796 (bun:jsc heapStats and constructor counters).
  • Parse and fold of 165 logs, 31 interleaved rounds, three runs: medians of main 669 to 712 ms, of this branch 660 to 719 ms. Main against main differs by 6 to 11 ms at the median.

Left for later.

  • The phase "Running N files that build many executables" (scripts/runner.node.ts:1852): a try that fails prints [N/M] <path> - <error> without seconds, and a first try has no start line. [N/M] <path> [attempt #K] (X.XXs), a retry that passes, is read by neither parser. ci:slowest gives such a file at most 500 ms per further try, so its attempts and maxAttemptMs are too low: about 13 (file, job) pairs per build. The seconds of a failed try have to come from the runner.
  • A file that fails in a bucket and has no failure case in the junit report gets no line from the runner (scripts/runner.node.ts:1684). Its bucket attempt is not counted. 0 cases in the three builds.
  • A program compiled ahead of time that passes, [N/M] <path> (compile X ms, run Y ms), has no row in ci:slowest. A test pins that.
  • The two parsers keep their own copies of the [N/M] header pattern, the (X.XXs) pattern, the path test and the 500 ms clamp. One loop in scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs with two folds is the follow-up.
  • The durations parser does not read a line that ends in \r\r\r\n: 31 runner lines in 15 darwin logs of the 495. Darwin is not a lane of the table.
  • Rows with equal maxMs have no tie-break.

Open PRs on the same files.

Earlier work. #41070 put the header shapes that both parsers share into scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs. This change adds one more shape there.


[auto-merge] gate passed · iteration 0 · 5 files touched

passes on PR (with fix)
Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts:
(pass) scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts addLog > does not charge the parallel-safe phase to the last serial test [209.39ms]
(pass) scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts addLog > sums retry attempts and normalizes Windows path separators [5.65ms]
(pass) scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts addLog > closes the last serial test at the parallel-phase group header when no parallel headers follow [19.21ms]
(pass) scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts addLog > does not charge the parallel-bucket phase to the preceding serial test [7.90ms]
(pass) scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts addLog > ignores stray `--- ` lines that are test output, not group headers [4.79ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- napi prebuild: 3 addon(s), 23.9s [1.09ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- [52-257/829] 206 files in parallel (3×) [0.25ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- Running 444 parallel-safe tests (3-wide) [0.11ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- Running 217 programs compiled ahead of time (3-wide) [0.10ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- Running 9 files that build many executables (3-wide) [0.07ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- Disk and memory pressure [0.07ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- End [0.06ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- Summary [0.06ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > true --- Received SIGTERM, exiting... [0.07ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > false --- a/index.js [0.12ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > false --- ps --- [0.07ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > false --- logs --- [0.06ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > false ------ [0.08ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > false ---  [0.07ms]
(pass) phase-header boundary > false --- [52/829] test/a.test.ts [0.07ms]
(pass) a file that fails in its parallel bucket > scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts adds the bucket 
... (truncated)
Exit: 0
diff hotspot
.claude/skills/slowest-tests/SKILL.md  |   3 +
 scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs               |  18 ++
 scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts            | 123 ++++++++++---
 scripts/update-test-durations.mjs      |   6 +
 test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts | 306 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 425 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                    reads  edits  tests
.claude/skills/slowest-tests/SKILL.md       1      1     38
scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs                    3      3     41
scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts                 7      8     40
scripts/update-test-durations.mjs           3      3     39
test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts      1      2     38

… parsers, and report attempts per ci:slowest row

A test file that fails in its `bun test --parallel` bucket has no `[N/M]`
line for that run. The runner prints `--- <path> - K failing in the
parallel batch (X.XXs)` and runs the file again, alone. Both job-log
parsers read only lines with `[N/M]`, so they dropped the bucket attempt.

- scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs: failedBucketAttempt() reads that line.
- scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts: the bucket attempt is one more attempt of
  the file. A row has `attempts` and `maxAttemptMs`, and the table has the
  columns `attempts` and `longest_attempt`. addLog(), slowestRows() and
  tableLines() are exported for the tests. parseLog() is gone: the script
  folds each log with addLog().
- scripts/update-test-durations.mjs: the bucket attempt is the sample of
  the file, and its rerun alone gives none. Lines are split on `\r*\n`,
  so a line that ends in three CRs is read.
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Updated 7:11 PM PT - Nov 6th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit f649963 has 38 failures in Build #138117 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 48052

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-48052 executable, so you can run:

bun-48052 --bun

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Status: PR open, #48052.

Reproduced on the job logs of builds 137815, 137632 and 137627 with bun run ci:slowest <build> --json. test/aot/a-regexp-literal-of-two-layers-is-made-once.test.ts on debian 13 x64-asan has maxMs 575530 where it passes in its parallel bucket. It has 149852 and 162725 where it fails there after 599.93 s and 599.73 s and then passes alone. With this branch the three rows are 575530, 749782 and 762455, with attempts 1, 2 and 2.

CI: the diff is green. test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts passes in build 138117 on each lane that I read: debian 13 x64-asan, ubuntu 25.04 x64 and aarch64, alpine 3.23 aarch64, windows 2019 x64 and darwin aarch64 (45 pass, 0 fail, no retry). The 58 red jobs of that build fail on 28 tests that this PR does not touch and that fail on main too. All 28 are AOT tests: 27 files under test/aot/, and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts.

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The CI slow-test parser now emits individual attempts, including failed parallel-bucket runs and standalone reruns. Aggregation sums attempts per file and platform, then reports attempt counts and longest-attempt durations. The duration-sampling comment describes using standalone runs for files that fail in parallel buckets.

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CI attempt timing and reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse individual test attempts
scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs, scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts, scripts/update-test-durations.mjs, test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts
The log helper parses failed-bucket timing lines. The slow-test parser emits individual attempts, including failed bucket timings. The duration-sampling comment describes using standalone runs for files that fail in buckets. Tests cover timing-line formats and log parsing cases.
Aggregate attempts and report slowest rows
scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts, test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts, .claude/skills/slowest-tests/SKILL.md
The script sums attempt durations by file and platform and reports attempt counts and longest-attempt durations in JSON and table output. Tests cover aggregation and formatting. The skill instructions describe the report fields.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#47637: Both changes use the runner’s parallel-bucket failure output and standalone retry sequence.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f6499

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Comment thread scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts Resolved
A file whose attempts all take 0 ms never passed the `total > maxMs`
test, so its row had an empty `maxPlat` and read its attempts for no
platform. `maxPlat` now starts as the first platform that ran the file.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the two refactors for behavior drift: the new startsWith("--- ") pre-gate in both parsers is equivalent to the old flow because isPhaseGroupHeader's regex is itself anchored on ^--- and the [N/M] branch already continues above it; and the /\r*\n/ split in update-test-durations.mjs accepts a superset of what the old /\r?\n/ plus one-CR strip accepted, so no previously parsed line is lost. The ci:slowest addLog fold also reproduces the old per-platform sum for a single-attempt file (the maxPlat init change only affects all-0ms files).

Extended reasoning...

The change touches only the two Buildkite job-log parser scripts, their shared helper in scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs, the slowest-tests skill doc and the parser tests; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Four confirmed findings are already posted inline, so this note only records the refactor checks that were examined and ruled out.

Comment thread scripts/update-test-durations.mjs Resolved
Comment thread scripts/update-test-durations.mjs Resolved
Comment thread scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts Resolved
Comment thread scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts Resolved
…t fails in its bucket

The durations parser goes back to what it does on main: a file that fails
in its parallel bucket gets no sample from the bucket attempt, and its run
alone is the sample.

- The seconds of a bucket run that was interrupted are the time from its
  dispatch to the interruption, not a full run.
- A file that fails in a bucket has a flaky or failed annotation, and
  update-parallel-allowlist.mjs takes such a file out of the buckets. It
  runs alone next, and the runner does not divide its duration then.

failedBucketAttempt() stays in scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs for ci:slowest,
which counts the time a file spent.
@robobun robobun changed the title scripts: read a file's failed parallel-bucket attempt in both job-log parsers, and report attempts per ci:slowest row ci:slowest: count a file's failed parallel-bucket attempt, and report attempts per row Nov 7, 2026

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LGTM — the latest commit resolves the durations-parser concerns from my earlier review, and the remaining ci:slowest refactor checks out.

What was reviewed:

  • eachAttempt/addLog refactor against the old parseLog + main-loop aggregation: the new startsWith("--- ") guard is equivalent because isPhaseGroupHeader anchors on ^--- , and the maxPlat default only changes rows whose attempts all take 0 ms.
  • failedBucketAttempt against the runner's output at scripts/runner.node.ts:1682-1686: the title is already backslash-normalised there, so the key matches the serial rerun's [N/M] key.
  • Fixture sums in test/internal/ci-slowest-tests.test.ts recomputed from the timestamps (e.g. 972954 and 1035230) — they match; parseLog has no remaining importers.
  • One note: the PR description's Fix/Downsides sections still say update-test-durations.mjs samples the bucket attempt and splits on \r*\n; since f649963 its code is unchanged from main apart from a comment.
Extended reasoning...

The diff touches two CI job-log parsers (scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts, scripts/ci-log-phase.mjs), adds a comment to scripts/update-test-durations.mjs, updates a skill doc, and adds ~300 lines of tests built from real Buildkite log lines. It is developer tooling with no security-sensitive surface: no user input, auth, or shipped runtime code. The commit f649963 reverted the durations-parser sampling change that my prior review flagged, leaving only the ci:slowest reporting change; the two other prior threads were marked pre-existing and non-blocking. The refactor was checked line by line against the old behavior, the regex against the runner's emitter, and the expected sums against fixture timestamps, and no CODEOWNER covers these paths and no third-party objection is open.

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The description is current with f649963. Its Fix section says that update-test-durations.mjs skips the line and stays so, and the Notes say that the script differs from main by one comment. The \r*\n split is gone from the script, and the Notes list the lines that end in \r\r\r\n under "Left for later".

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