[BUG] Unable to generate sysimage with Plots.jl in Julia 1.9.x

[pedromxavier]

Details

Generating sysimage containing only Plots.jl in Julia >= 1.9 is taking more than 6 hours (GitHub actions job limit). This also happens while running locally.

See: https://github.com/pedromxavier/QUBO-notebooks/actions/runs/6375873703/job/17302152682

Backends

This is backend-independent.

Versions

Plots.jl version: v1.39.0

Output of versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.9.3
Commit bed2cd540a1 (2023-08-24 14:43 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 2 × Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-14.0.6 (ORCJIT, skylake-avx5[12](https://github.com/pedromxavier/QUBO-notebooks/actions/runs/6375873703/job/17302152682#step:4:13))
  Threads: 1 on 2 virtual cores

[jamblejoe]

I can confirm this for Julia on ARM with M1 Apple chips. Generating the sysimage is taking over 2.5hrs already without being completed. I noted that the CPU usage of the Julia process is nearly zero.

[jamblejoe]

After interrupting the creation of the sysimage I got the following error

julia> @time create_sysimage(;sysimage_path="PlotsSysImage.so")
Precompiling project...
  148 dependencies successfully precompiled in 70 seconds
⠙ [04h:13m:15s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system image^C
[72419] signal (2): Interrupt: 2
in expression starting at /var/folders/hv/3wt4f9r11dz935gtp9fjmsgm0000gp/T/jl_05g1AfgfcH:65
kevent at /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib (unknown line)
unknown function (ip: 0x0)
Allocations: 4070201 (Pool: 4068189; Big: 2012); GC: 5
✖ [04h:13m:15s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system image
┌ Warning: Free system memory dropped to 16.797 MiB during sysimage compilation.
│ If the reason the subprocess errored isn't clear, it may have been OOM-killed.
└ @ PackageCompiler ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/src/PackageCompiler.jl:138
ERROR: InterruptException:
Stacktrace:
  [1] try_yieldto(undo::typeof(Base.ensure_rescheduled))
    @ Base ./task.jl:920
  [2] wait()
    @ Base ./task.jl:984
  [3] wait(c::Base.GenericCondition{Base.Threads.SpinLock}; first::Bool)
    @ Base ./condition.jl:130
  [4] wait
    @ ./condition.jl:125 [inlined]
  [5] wait(x::Base.Process)
    @ Base ./process.jl:661
  [6] success
    @ ./process.jl:523 [inlined]
  [7] run(::Cmd; wait::Bool)
    @ Base ./process.jl:480
  [8] run
    @ ./process.jl:477 [inlined]
  [9] #19
    @ ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/ext/TerminalSpinners.jl:157 [inlined]
 [10] spin(f::PackageCompiler.var"#19#21"{Cmd}, s::PackageCompiler.TerminalSpinners.Spinner{Base.TTY})
    @ PackageCompiler.TerminalSpinners ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/ext/TerminalSpinners.jl:164
 [11] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/ext/TerminalSpinners.jl:157 [inlined]
 [12] create_sysimg_object_file(object_file::String, packages::Vector{String}, packages_sysimg::Set{Base.PkgId}; project::String, base_sysimage::String, precompile_execution_file::Vector{String}, precompile_statements_file::Vector{String}, cpu_target::String, script::Nothing, sysimage_build_args::Cmd, extra_precompiles::String, incremental::Bool)
    @ PackageCompiler ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/src/PackageCompiler.jl:135
 [13] create_sysimg_object_file
    @ ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/src/PackageCompiler.jl:297 [inlined]
 [14] create_sysimage(packages::Nothing; sysimage_path::String, project::String, precompile_execution_file::Vector{String}, precompile_statements_file::Vector{String}, incremental::Bool, filter_stdlibs::Bool, cpu_target::String, script::Nothing, sysimage_build_args::Cmd, include_transitive_dependencies::Bool, base_sysimage::Nothing, julia_init_c_file::Nothing, julia_init_h_file::Nothing, version::Nothing, soname::Nothing, compat_level::String, extra_precompiles::String)
    @ PackageCompiler ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/src/PackageCompiler.jl:599
 [15] create_sysimage
    @ ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/Na90o/src/PackageCompiler.jl:492 [inlined]
 [16] top-level scope
    @ ./timing.jl:273 [inlined]
 [17] top-level scope
    @ ./REPL[14]:0

The Julia repl was still alive afterwards, so I am sure it was not killed by the OS.