Description:

actions/runner-images#3577

Ubuntu agents have slightly higher IOPS disk performance configuration. We use install-dotnet.ps1 script for installation provided by DotNet team . The DownloadFile and Extract-Dotnet-Package functions are being slow. We will investigate how to improve performance those functions if we replace DownloadFile -> WebClient and Extract-Dotnet-Package -> 7zip

DownloadFile and Extract-Dotnet-Package are awfully slow. Like 3x slower!

Task version:
v1.9.0

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Repro steps:
https://github.com/jetersen/dotnet.restore.slow.github.action

Expected behavior:
Faster downloads

Actual behavior:
SLOW downloads