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by lpgauth 873 days ago
One thing I find frustrating about the Github Actions's runner pricing is that it's calculated on a minute basis. Couldn't you bill by the second instead? Maybe set a minimum to 1 min but after that charge by the second?

I assume this is done to cover the time that the VM reboots between jobs?

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This is exactly what we do at WarpBuild, more in the interest of fairness and not passing on random costs to users.

The VM reboot times add up quickly and that's likely the rationale. However, it gets hard when there are users running linting jobs that take ~2s but running it with 16vcpu instances so we kept the 1 min floor.