[Buildbot-devel] Calling Stale Broker

[Brian Warner]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:54:21 +0000 (GMT)
"o.rusterholz at bluewin.ch" <o.rusterholz at bluewin.ch> wrote:

> My Buildbot master and slaves are running on the same windows 
> machine. Can't change this at the moment. If this computer is under 
> heavy load (from the builds) sometimes some slaves are disconnecting 
> and the ones which are running throw a shell exception:
> 
>     raise DeadReferenceError("Calling Stale Broker")
> twisted.spread.pb.DeadReferenceError: Calling Stale Broker
> 
> Does anybody know what this means and how I can avoid it? The 
> version I'm running is about half way between 0.7.5 and 0.7.6.

Sorry to be so slow in responding.. that exception appears when the
connection between the buildslave and buildmaster has been dropped because of
a timeout. Your system must be under enough load that one side or the other
is unable to get a few CPU seconds every couple of minutes to respond to the
keepalives.

If it keeps happening, you could probably edit the source code to increase
the timeout. Let me know if it's still a problem and I'll track down the file
to modify.

cheers,
 -Brian