silverwind fa5334eb24 fix: Heartbeat ReportState for long-running silent jobs (#852)
Fixes #826.

Regressed in f2d54556 (#819, "perf: reduce runner-to-server connection load with adaptive reporting and polling"). That change added an early-return in `ReportState` whenever there was no state change and no pending outputs, so jobs that produce no log output and no step transitions for many minutes (e.g. a Linux kernel build) stop heartbeating. The server eventually marks the task as orphaned and cancels it while the runner is still executing.

The fix tracks the last successful `UpdateTask` time in an atomic and keeps the no-op skip only while the previous report is younger than `stateReportInterval`. The periodic state ticker fires at exactly `stateReportInterval`, so silent jobs now heartbeat each tick; redundant sends from a `stateNotify` firing right after a tick are still suppressed, preserving the perf intent of #819.

Test added: `TestReporter_StateHeartbeat` asserts the skip path within the interval and the heartbeat path after the interval elapses.

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This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7

Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/852
Reviewed-by: Nicolas <bircni@icloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: ChristopherHX <38043+christopherhx@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-committed-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
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act runner

Act runner is a runner for Gitea.

Installation

Prerequisites

Docker Engine Community version is required for docker mode. To install Docker CE, follow the official install instructions.

Download pre-built binary

Visit here and download the right version for your platform.

Build from source

make build

Build a docker image

make docker

Quickstart

Actions are disabled by default, so you need to add the following to the configuration file of your Gitea instance to enable it:

[actions]
ENABLED=true

Register

./act_runner register

And you will be asked to input:

  1. Gitea instance URL, like http://192.168.8.8:3000/. You should use your gitea instance ROOT_URL as the instance argument and you should not use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as instance IP;
  2. Runner token, you can get it from http://192.168.8.8:3000/admin/actions/runners;
  3. Runner name, you can just leave it blank;
  4. Runner labels, you can just leave it blank.

The process looks like:

INFO Registering runner, arch=amd64, os=darwin, version=0.1.5.
WARN Runner in user-mode.
INFO Enter the Gitea instance URL (for example, https://gitea.com/):
http://192.168.8.8:3000/
INFO Enter the runner token:
fe884e8027dc292970d4e0303fe82b14xxxxxxxx
INFO Enter the runner name (if set empty, use hostname: Test.local):

INFO Enter the runner labels, leave blank to use the default labels (comma-separated, for example, ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest):

INFO Registering runner, name=Test.local, instance=http://192.168.8.8:3000/, labels=[ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest ubuntu-22.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-22.04 ubuntu-20.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-20.04].
DEBU Successfully pinged the Gitea instance server
INFO Runner registered successfully.

You can also register with command line arguments.

./act_runner register --instance http://192.168.8.8:3000 --token <my_runner_token> --no-interactive

If the registry succeed, it will run immediately. Next time, you could run the runner directly.

Run

./act_runner daemon

Run with docker

docker run -e GITEA_INSTANCE_URL=https://your_gitea.com -e GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN=<your_token> -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --name my_runner gitea/act_runner:nightly

Configuration

You can also configure the runner with a configuration file. The configuration file is a YAML file, you can generate a sample configuration file with ./act_runner generate-config.

./act_runner generate-config > config.yaml

You can specify the configuration file path with -c/--config argument.

./act_runner -c config.yaml register # register with config file
./act_runner -c config.yaml daemon # run with config file

You can read the latest version of the configuration file online at config.example.yaml.

Example Deployments

Check out the examples directory for sample deployment types.

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