Uncovering Disk I/O Bottlenecks in GitHub Actions
Disk I/O bottlenecks are easy to overlook when analyzing CI pipeline performance, but tools like iostat and fio can help shed a light on what might be slowing down your pipelines more than you know.
GitHub offers different hosted-runners with a range of specs, but for this test we are using the default ubuntu-22.04 runner in a private repository, which does give us an additional 2 vCPUs but does not alter the disk performance.
How to monitor disk performance
Getting a baseline benchmark from a t...
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