📖 Document RBE_platform cache-silo-key for distributed builds #36
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📖 Document RBE_platform cache-silo-key for distributed builds #36
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| > 💡 Don't forget to ajdust the number of jobs `-j` used for the build, to avoid overloading your local machine, when building with `RBE_remote_disabled`. | ||
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| > ## 🧹 How to force a clean cache for a `--distributed --build`? | ||
| > Sometimes it may be necessary to ensure a build doesn't reuse any previously cached remote actions (_e.g._ investigating a flaky build, testing a toolchain change or simply starting fresh). This can be done by passing a `cache-silo-key` via the `RBE_platform` environment variable: |
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Testing a toolchain change will result in cache invalidation.
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Please change into: investigating a flaky build or simply starting fresh
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Not if you're using Tipi with the driver-only method, but this might not be the right place for that explanation, actually. But I will do the change
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cache-silo-keyproperty viaRBE_platformto segregate remote cache hits