App build hangs up in container, with rosetta support

[Gogulaanand]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to dockerize my local development setup of an Ember (similar to react) app to ensure a stable local environment setup. But I am running into build performance issues where the app build compilation just stops in the middle and doesn't progress further.

The thing is this happens only from Podman version 5.1. With 5.0, I am not facing this hang-up issue although I am facing a segmentation fault error for which the recommendation here was to upgrade to v5.1 with rosetta support.

podman info:

host:
  arch: arm64
  buildahVersion: 1.35.4
  cgroupControllers:
  - cpuset
  - cpu
  - io
  - memory
  - pids
  - rdma
  - misc
  cgroupManager: systemd
  cgroupVersion: v2
  conmon:
    package: conmon-2.1.10-1.fc40.aarch64
    path: /usr/bin/conmon
    version: 'conmon version 2.1.10, commit: '
  cpuUtilization:
    idlePercent: 97.62
    systemPercent: 0.41
    userPercent: 1.97
  cpus: 12
  databaseBackend: sqlite
  distribution:
    distribution: fedora
    variant: coreos
    version: "40"
  eventLogger: journald
  freeLocks: 2044
  hostname: localhost.localdomain
  idMappings:
    gidmap: null
    uidmap: null
  kernel: 6.8.8-300.fc40.aarch64
  linkmode: dynamic
  logDriver: journald
  memFree: 7594790912
  memTotal: 17995030528
  networkBackend: netavark
  networkBackendInfo:
    backend: netavark
    dns:
      package: aardvark-dns-1.10.0-1.fc40.aarch64
      path: /usr/libexec/podman/aardvark-dns
      version: aardvark-dns 1.10.0
    package: netavark-1.10.3-3.fc40.aarch64
    path: /usr/libexec/podman/netavark
    version: netavark 1.10.3
  ociRuntime:
    name: crun
    package: crun-1.14.4-1.fc40.aarch64
    path: /usr/bin/crun
    version: |-
      crun version 1.14.4
      commit: a220ca661ce078f2c37b38c92e66cf66c012d9c1
      rundir: /run/crun
      spec: 1.0.0
      +SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +LIBKRUN +WASM:wasmedge +YAJL
  os: linux
  pasta:
    executable: /usr/bin/pasta
    package: passt-0^20240426.gd03c4e2-1.fc40.aarch64
    version: |
      pasta 0^20240426.gd03c4e2-1.fc40.aarch64-pasta
      Copyright Red Hat
      GNU General Public License, version 2 or later
        <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
      This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
      There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
  remoteSocket:
    exists: true
    path: /run/podman/podman.sock
  security:
    apparmorEnabled: false
    capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT
    rootless: false
    seccompEnabled: true
    seccompProfilePath: /usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
    selinuxEnabled: true
  serviceIsRemote: true
  slirp4netns:
    executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns
    package: slirp4netns-1.2.2-2.fc40.aarch64
    version: |-
      slirp4netns version 1.2.2
      commit: 0ee2d87523e906518d34a6b423271e4826f71faf
      libslirp: 4.7.0
      SLIRP_CONFIG_VERSION_MAX: 4
      libseccomp: 2.5.3
  swapFree: 0
  swapTotal: 0
  uptime: 18h 48m 10.00s (Approximately 0.75 days)
  variant: v8
plugins:
  authorization: null
  log:
  - k8s-file
  - none
  - passthrough
  - journald
  network:
  - bridge
  - macvlan
  - ipvlan
  volume:
  - local
registries:
  search:
  - docker.io
store:
  configFile: /usr/share/containers/storage.conf
  containerStore:
    number: 4
    paused: 0
    running: 1
    stopped: 3
  graphDriverName: overlay
  graphOptions:
    overlay.imagestore: /usr/lib/containers/storage
    overlay.mountopt: nodev,metacopy=on
  graphRoot: /var/lib/containers/storage
  graphRootAllocated: 198037188608
  graphRootUsed: 15198486528
  graphStatus:
    Backing Filesystem: xfs
    Native Overlay Diff: "false"
    Supports d_type: "true"
    Supports shifting: "true"
    Supports volatile: "true"
    Using metacopy: "true"
  imageCopyTmpDir: /var/tmp
  imageStore:
    number: 23
  runRoot: /run/containers/storage
  transientStore: false
  volumePath: /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes
version:
  APIVersion: 5.0.3
  Built: 1715299200
  BuiltTime: Fri May 10 05:30:00 2024
  GitCommit: ""
  GoVersion: go1.22.2
  Os: linux
  OsArch: linux/arm64
  Version: 5.0.3

With v5.0, though there is no hang up, there is a performance drop compared to host.
Build times:
container: 6m30s
host: 2m30s

Available cpu cores: 12 (M3 Mac pro)
Allocated cpu: 12
Allocated ram: 18.5gb
Available ram: 19gb

Build CMD: podman build --platform linux/amd64 -t image_name:1.0 -f Dockerfile .

Run CMD: podman run --platform linux/amd64 --privileged -it -v "$PWD":/app -v ~/.ssh:/root/.ssh localhost/image_name:1.0 /bin/bash