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63 changes: 63 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/__extractor-ram-threads.yml
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# Deliberately don't use TEST_MODE here. This is specifically testing
# the compatibility with the API.
runner/dist/codeql-runner-linux upload --sarif-file src/testdata/empty-sarif.sarif --repository $GITHUB_REPOSITORY --commit $GITHUB_SHA --ref $GITHUB_REF --github-url $GITHUB_SERVER_URL --github-auth ${{ github.token }}

runner-extractor-ram-threads-options:
name: Runner ubuntu extractor RAM and threads options
needs: [check-js, check-node-modules]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: Build runner
run: |
cd runner
npm install
npm run build-runner

- name: Run init
run: |
runner/dist/codeql-runner-linux init --ram=230 --threads=1 --repository $GITHUB_REPOSITORY --languages java --github-url $GITHUB_SERVER_URL --github-auth ${{ github.token }}
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I think I'd slightly prefer this to use something other than 1 for the threads as 1 could very easily be a default in which case we wouldn't really be checking anything. Maybe 3 as that seems very unlikely to ever be the default value.

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This is a decision that I struggled with.

The main challenge here is that the number of threads used defaults to (and is capped at) the number of CPU cores available on the machine. GitHub action runners have 2 CPUs, so both the default and the cap would be 2. Passing any value larger than 1 means that the test will break if it runs on a system with different number of CPUs.

I would love to hear your thoughts. For example, maybe we could assume that the runner will always have at least 2 CPUs and have two tests with threads set to 1 and 2?

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Aha, this is a good point. As I mentioned below, I'm actually not sure that capping this is a good idea, but for now let's leave this test as is 🙂


- name: Assert Results
shell: bash
run: |
. ./codeql-runner/codeql-env.sh
if [ "${CODEQL_RAM}" != "230" ]; then
echo "CODEQL_RAM is '${CODEQL_RAM}' instead of 230"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_RAM}" != "230" ]; then
echo "CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_RAM is '${CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_RAM}' instead of 230"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${CODEQL_THREADS}" != "1" ]; then
echo "CODEQL_THREADS is '${CODEQL_THREADS}' instead of 1"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_THREADS}" != "1" ]; then
echo "CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_THREADS is '${CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_JAVA_THREADS}' instead of 1"
exit 1
fi
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## [UNRELEASED]

No user facing changes.
- The `init` step of the Action now supports `ram` and `threads` inputs to limit resource use of CodeQL extractors. These inputs also serve as defaults to the subsequent `analyze` step, which finalizes the database and executes queries. [#738](https://github.com/github/codeql-action/pull/738)

## 1.0.21 - 28 Oct 2021

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required: false
default: "brutal"
ram:
description: Override the amount of memory in MB to be used by CodeQL. By default, almost all the memory of the machine is used.
description: >-
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Since the input descriptions here are going to vary between the two actions, we should add an exception to the custom query that's producing the code scanning warning on this file.

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I edited queries/inconsistent-action-input.ql to exclude inputs named ram or threads from the query.

The amount of memory in MB that can be used by CodeQL for database finalization and query execution.
By default, this action will use the same amount of memory as previously set in the "init" action.
If the "init" action also does not have an explicit "ram" input, this action will use most of the
memory available in the system (which for GitHub-hosted runners is 6GB for Linux, 5.5GB for Windows,
and 13GB for macOS).
required: false
add-snippets:
description: Specify whether or not to add code snippets to the output sarif file.
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required: false
default: "false"
threads:
description: The number of threads to be used by CodeQL.
description: >-
The number of threads that can be used by CodeQL for database finalization and query execution.
By default, this action will use the same number of threads as previously set in the "init" action.
If the "init" action also does not have an explicit "threads" input, this action will use all the
hardware threads available in the system (which for GitHub-hosted runners is 2 for Linux and Windows
and 3 for macOS).
required: false
checkout_path:
description: "The path at which the analyzed repository was checked out. Used to relativize any absolute paths in the uploaded SARIF file."
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source-root:
description: Path of the root source code directory, relative to $GITHUB_WORKSPACE.
required: false
ram:
description: >-
The amount of memory in MB that can be used by CodeQL extractors.
By default, CodeQL extractors will use most of the memory available in the system
(which for GitHub-hosted runners is 6GB for Linux, 5.5GB for Windows, and 13GB for macOS).
This input also sets the amount of memory that can later be used by the "analyze" action.
required: false
threads:
description: >-
The number of threads that can be used by CodeQL extractors.
By default, CodeQL extractors will use all the hardware threads available in the system
(which for GitHub-hosted runners is 2 for Linux and Windows and 3 for macOS).
This input also sets the number of threads that can later be used by the "analyze" action.
required: false
outputs:
codeql-path:
description: The path of the CodeQL binary used for analysis
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