<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Neil Gilmore <<a href="mailto:ngilmore@grammatech.com">ngilmore@grammatech.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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></div><br><div>If I understand correctly, you don’t need that lock. Read about the max_builds parameter on slaves (workers).</div></body></html>