[Buildbot-devel] Concurrent builds on different slaves

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone
<exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
>  - while B1 is running anywhere, sometimes forcing B2 will wait until B1
>    has completed, but sometimes not.

I think I understand now.  This happens because B2 randomly picks the
slave that B1 is using, then blocks acquiring the lock.  Buildbot does
not have any mechanism to seek out an un-locked slave.

Dustin

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