'composer create' and 'composer update' seem to hang then complete tens of minutes later

I figured I would add some specifics and my machine metrics during the 15 minute composer update.

I'm running an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC on ProxMox.

First run in the screenshot was with 8g ram and 2 CPUs. I saw that cpu usage was capped at 50% so I doubled to 4 cpus. That doesn't seem to be it because the second run just capped at 25%.

RAM usage seems to be ramping but that does not necessarily indicate a memory leak although it could.

I'm running a LAMP stack with MariaDB/Apache2 and PHP 8.3.11.

Here are some of my PHP settings.

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo phpenmod mbstring
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod env
sudo a2enmod dir
sudo a2enmod mime
sudo apt install php8.3-fpm
sudo a2dismod php8.3
sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork
sudo a2enmod mpm_event proxy_fcgi setenvif
sudo a2enconf php8.3-fpm
sudo apt install php8.3-apcu
sudo apt-get -y install redis-server php-redis
sudo usermod -a -G redis $USER

me@Drupal:/var/www/varbase$ grep -E "items" /etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini
    max_execution_time = 1200
    max_input_time = 1000
    max_input_vars = 3000
    memory_limit = -1
    post_max_size = 96M
    upload_max_filesize = 64M
    opcache.enable=1
    opcache.enable_cli=1
    opcache.memory_consumption=128
    opcache.interned_strings_buffer=10
    opcache.max_accelerated_files=10000
    opcache.revalidate_freq=60
    opcache.save_comments=1
    ;opcache.enable_file_override=0


me@Drupal:/var/www/varbase$ grep -E "items" /etc/php/8.3/fpm/php.ini
    max_execution_time = 1200
    max_input_time = 1000
    max_input_vars = 3000
    memory_limit = -1
    post_max_size = 96M
    upload_max_filesize = 64M
    opcache.enable=1
    opcache.enable_cli=1
    opcache.memory_consumption=128
    opcache.interned_strings_buffer=10
    opcache.max_accelerated_files=10000
    opcache.revalidate_freq=60
    opcache.save_comments=1
    ;opcache.enable_file_override=0

/etc/php/8.3/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
    pm.max_children = 64
    pm.start_servers = 16
    pm.min_spare_servers = 16
    pm.max_spare_servers = 32
    ;env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
    env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/snap/bin
    ;env[TMP] = /tmp
    ;env[TMPDIR] = /tmp
    ;env[TEMP] = /tmp

I did a verbose composer update and it just seems like on a handful of downloads it just hangs for a while. I'll update this with the list of exactly which ones hang.

To summarize the results above. There seems to be three packages that cause delays.

• $jquery.fancytree.json accounts for 1.40 minutes of delay
• $ckeditor--ckeditor5-dll-inline.json accounts for 14 minutes of delay
• $blurhash.json accounts for 2 minutes of delay

Any ideas on if there is user error or some systemic issue at the moment?

Thanks, Joseph, for following up
Yes, I confirm the issue
https://asset-packagist.org is slow.

Not sure if this issue is from asset-packagist.org server.

Joseph, Could you please file an issue about this at https://github.com/hiqdev/asset-packagist/issues

Moving this issue to Needs Work for now.
asset-packagist.org is running slow. ( and fetching all nested libraries in package.json) which not what we want.

Using the following TEMP fix

  "replace": {
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5-dll-inline": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5-core": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5-engine":"*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5-ui": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5-utils": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor5-widget": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5-dll-inline": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5-core": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5-engine":"*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5-ui": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5-utils": "*",
    "npm-asset/ckeditor--ckeditor5-widget": "*",
    "npm-asset/lodash-es": "*",
    "npm-asset/lodash.debounce": "*",
    "npm-asset/lodash.throttle": "*",
    "npm-asset/nouislider": "*",
    "npm-asset/rtseo.js": "*",
    "bower-asset/jquery": "*",
    "bower-asset/jquery-ui": "*"
  },

Drupal Core brings their ckeditor5 and Jquery. ( not needed to have them in libraries )

Considering switching to a faster alternative.

Builds in CIs are taking almost 20m for the "composer install"
https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/Vardot/varbase/1035/workflows/...