Re: Buildbot slaves, please!
Richard Levitte <[email protected]>
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In message <[email protected]> on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:39:20 -0500, Stephen Leake <[email protected]> said: stephen_leake> Running a buildbot on Windows essentially requires a dedicated machine; stephen_leake> two if I also run a Cygwin buildbot. Running both buildbots on one stephen_leake> machine led to timeouts on the master, because they compete for the disk stephen_leake> and are therefor slow. I don't have any Windows boxes to spare. stephen_leake> stephen_leake> That could be alleviated by only running builds during certain hours. Do stephen_leake> we really need a complete rebuild of every single commit, 24/7? I fully understand the issue and will look into it. stephen_leake> It would also help if there was an "update" mode, rather than always stephen_leake> doing a complete fresh checkout and build. I haven't timed it recently; stephen_leake> perhaps now the test time dwarfs the build time. The current code does it without any problem. See it in action here. http://monotone.ca:9000/builders/i386-debian-testing/builds/53/steps/monotone/logs/stdio stephen_leake> I have not been able to get extra/* to run on MinGW; I have not spent stephen_leake> much time on it. I don't think we should hold the release for that. Agreed. -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish