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Speed up run startup times #3920

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@r4victor

Currently it takes 10-15s for a run to go from submitted to running on an idle instance with pre-pulled image. This is unnecessary slow since all we need is a few RTTs to instance to submit the run.

I prototyped a few optimizations that prove run startup time can be ~1s (even with a large 200ms RTT). These include:

  • Reusing SSH connection to instance (most gain)
  • Removing completely artificial pipelines delays between job and run state transitions.
  • Skipping getting backend offers if instance offers suffice.
  • Dropping RSA key generation for sshd inside container.
  • Dropping some unnecessary runner API calls (repeated healthchecks).

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  1. self-assigned this
    on Jun 1, 2026
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