[Buildbot-devel] RFE: load management for build slaves

[Scott Lamb]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Alexander Lorenz wrote:
>> before you start spending time on coding this:
>> you _have_ noticed the lock mechanisms that are already  
>> implemented in buildbot, haven't you?
>> http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/manual-0.7.2.html#Interlocks
>> sounds to me like a good solution for your first approach.
>
> Yep. As Brian pointed out in another mail, these locks would need
> to be extended to act like semaphores, i.e. allow values larger
> than 1.

Looks like there's already a patch for that on sourceforge:

<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1434997&group_id=73177&atid=537003>

-- 
Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>