[Buildbot-devel] Concurrent builds on different slaves

[Marcus Lindblom]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

[snip]

> Naively, I thought I could add my new slave by changing the definition of
> `slave´ to this:
> 
>     slave = {
>         'slavenames': ['slave-foo', 'slave-bar'],
>         'locks': [oneCPULock]}
> 
> However, when I do this, builds across the two builders seem to end up
> serialized instead of parallelised.  However, just to make things complicated,
> *some* builds will run in parallel.  I cannot discern what pattern these
> builds follow, though.

Hm. I've always put slavelocks on the buildsteps instead of the 
builders, and that has worked well for limiting stuff across builders on 
one slave (amongst many).

Perhaps that helps?

/Marcus