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Jim,<br>
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Thanks for the pointer.<br>
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I never delved into buildbot at all until I got tasked with the
upgrade, so I can't say whether it was ever a good technique, or
just one that's now obsolete.<br>
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Neil Gilmore<br>
grammatech.com<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/2016 12:29 PM, Jim Rowan wrote:<br>
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<div>On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Neil Gilmore <<a
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display:
inline !important;">We have several builders per worker, but
the workers don't always have enough resources to have a
build active for every builder. So we have a lock that makes
sure only one build is really doing anything at a time.</span></blockquote>
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<div>If I understand correctly, you don’t need that lock. Read
about the max_builds parameter on slaves (workers).</div>
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