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nixos/scripts/lib/nix-parallel.sh
beatzaplentyandClaude Sonnet 5 f237a6a3d2
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Run per-host/per-package nix eval and dry-run build concurrently
codex-maintenance.sh evaluated each affected host/package one at a time,
even though those calls are independent. Added scripts/lib/nix-parallel.sh
(run_nix_parallel) and wired it into the host-eval, package-eval, and
dry-run-build loops.

Concurrency defaults to core count capped by available memory (~1GB/job)
rather than plain nproc: empirically, nproc-many concurrent full-flake
evals OOM-killed each other on a 4GB/6-core box, while 3-4 ran clean and
were still ~2x faster than serial. Override via NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 02:04:21 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Shared parallel-nix-invocation helper for scripts/codex-maintenance.sh.
# Source alongside nix-eval.sh:
# source "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/lib/nix-parallel.sh"
#
# The per-host/per-package `nix eval`/`nix build --dry-run` calls in
# codex-maintenance.sh are independent of each other, so running them one at
# a time leaves most cores idle for most of the sweep -- run_nix_parallel
# fans a batch of them out across up to NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS processes instead.
# NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS: how many `nix` invocations run_nix_parallel runs at
# once. Defaults to core count capped by available memory (~1GB/job,
# floor 1) rather than plain `nproc` -- each concurrent `nix eval` here
# evaluates a whole NixOS system closure from scratch, and on a small/
# memory-constrained CI runner, `nproc` concurrent evals can OOM-kill each
# other (confirmed empirically: on a 4GB/6-core box, 5-6 concurrent evals
# started getting killed while 3-4 ran clean and were still ~2x faster than
# serial). Override via env if a given machine/CI runner has room to spare
# or needs a tighter cap.
default_nix_parallel_jobs() {
local cores mem_avail_kb mem_cap
cores="$(nproc 2>/dev/null || echo 4)"
mem_avail_kb="$(awk '/^MemAvailable:/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo 2>/dev/null)"
if [[ -z "$mem_avail_kb" ]]; then
echo "$cores"
return
fi
mem_cap=$((mem_avail_kb / 1024 / 1024))
((mem_cap < 1)) && mem_cap=1
((mem_cap < cores)) && echo "$mem_cap" || echo "$cores"
}
NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS="${NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS:-$(default_nix_parallel_jobs)}"
# Separator between a job's label and its flake attr in the arrays
# run_nix_parallel takes -- a control character so it can't collide with
# anything a label or attr path would plausibly contain.
NIX_PARALLEL_SEP=$'\x1f'
# run_nix_parallel <jobs_array_name> <nix subcommand + flags...>
#
# jobs_array_name: name of an already-populated bash array whose entries are
# "<label>${NIX_PARALLEL_SEP}<attr>" pairs, e.g.
# jobs=("proxmox-docker${NIX_PARALLEL_SEP}.#nixosConfigurations.proxmox-docker...drvPath")
# Remaining args are passed to `nix` before the attr, e.g.:
# run_nix_parallel jobs eval --raw "${NIX_EVAL_FLAGS[@]}"
# run_nix_parallel jobs build --dry-run --no-link "${NIX_EVAL_FLAGS[@]}"
#
# Prints "==> <label>" followed by that job's stdout+stderr for every job,
# in submission order (not completion order) so a run stays readable and
# diffable across invocations even though the work itself doesn't finish in
# that order. Returns non-zero if any job failed, only after every job has
# finished and been printed -- same "surface everything, then fail" contract
# a `set -e` caller gets, just parallelized instead of stopping at the first
# failure.
run_nix_parallel() {
local -n jobs_ref="$1"
shift
local -a nix_args=("$@")
local n=${#jobs_ref[@]}
[[ $n -eq 0 ]] && return 0
local tmp_dir
tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
local i=0 running=0
for job in "${jobs_ref[@]}"; do
local attr="${job#*"${NIX_PARALLEL_SEP}"}"
printf '%s\n' "${job%%"${NIX_PARALLEL_SEP}"*}" >"${tmp_dir}/${i}.label"
(
if nix "${nix_args[@]}" "$attr" >"${tmp_dir}/${i}.out" 2>&1; then
echo 0 >"${tmp_dir}/${i}.status"
else
echo 1 >"${tmp_dir}/${i}.status"
fi
) &
i=$((i + 1))
running=$((running + 1))
if ((running >= NIX_PARALLEL_JOBS)); then
wait -n
running=$((running - 1))
fi
done
wait
local failed=0 j
for ((j = 0; j < n; j++)); do
echo "==> $(cat "${tmp_dir}/${j}.label")"
cat "${tmp_dir}/${j}.out"
[[ "$(cat "${tmp_dir}/${j}.status")" -ne 0 ]] && failed=1
done
rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
return $failed
}