Remote execution detected for disk_cache usages

[sluongng]

Suggestion: "Build without the Bytes"
Consider setting the Bazel flag --remote_download_minimal to minimize the data downloaded while using remote execution.
Also see https://docs.bazel.build/versions/main/command-line-reference.html#flag--remote_download_minimal
Rationale
This profile includes events that indicate remote execution was used.
Caveats
The profile does not expose whether this flag is already set.

This is not accurate as in my testing, only disk_cache was used.

I get that from Bazel's perspective, disk_cache is a form of remote cache, but it's not that clear to end users and this recommendation was not applicable.

[saraadams]

Can you confirm that the profile includes events of the category Remote execution process wall time and/or Remote execution upload time?

[sluongng]

It was a build from https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel master branch on my Mac laptop

The only thing added was this file

> cat user.bazelrc
build --disk_cache=~/.cache/bazel/disk_cache
build --repository_cache=~/.cache/bazel/repository_cache

build --watchfs
build --incompatible_strict_action_env
build --java_runtime_version=remotejdk_11

No remote execution was configured.

I think there was remote action cache check category, but no event of cat remote execution .*.

[saraadams]

Thanks for the steps to reproduce. The profile includes Remote execution upload time (note capitalization). It seems this is an event that's also written to the profile when disk_cache is set.