Reclient
Reclient integrates with an existing build system to enable remote execution and caching of build actions.
Electron has a deployment of a reclient
compatible RBE Backend that is available to all Electron Maintainers.
See the Access section below for details on authentication. Non-maintainers
will not have access to the cluster, but can sign in to receive a Cache Only token
that gives access to the cache-only CAS backend. Using this should result in
significantly faster build times .
Enabling Reclientβ
Currently the only supported way to use Reclient is to use our Build Tools.
Reclient configuration is automatically included when you set up build-tools.
If you have an existing config, you can just set "reclient": "remote_exec"
in your config file.
Building with Reclientβ
When you are using Reclient, you can run autoninja with a substantially higher j
value than would normally be supported by your machine.
Please do not set a value higher than 200. The RBE system is monitored. Users found to be abusing it with unreasonable concurrency will be deactivated.
autoninja -C out/Testing electron -j 200
If you're using build-tools, appropriate -j values will automatically be used for you.
Accessβ
For security and cost reasons, access to Electron's RBE backend is currently restricted
to Electron Maintainers. If you want access, please head to #access-requests in
Slack and ping @infra-wg to ask for it. Please be aware that being a
maintainer does not automatically grant access. Access is determined on a
case-by-case basis.
Supportβ
We do not provide support for usage of Reclient. Issues raised asking for help / having issues will probably be closed without much reason. We do not have the capacity to handle that kind of support.