workflows/eval: disable swap#431459
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Recent performance tests show that (a) swapping heavily slows down the Eval job, while (b) lowering the chunkSize does not have an effect on run-time. It does on memory usage, though - thus we can get rid of swapping entirely by reducing chunkSize respectively.
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Recent performance tests show that (a) swapping heavily slows down the Eval job, while (b) lowering the chunkSize does not have an effect on run-time. It does on memory usage, though - thus we can get rid of swapping entirely by reducing chunkSize respectively.
Looking closer at the results in #427724 shows that with a chunkSize of 10k some Lix versions already started swapping. To enable #428076 (comment), I selected a chunkSize that works for all Nix/Lix versions.
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