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[Aleksandr Milewski]

On Feb 10, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> OK, it seems I expressed myself poorly. I was certainly not  
> suggesting that a build slave instance, executing one or multiple  
> builders, was cheap. My point was that I couldn't see the advantage  
> of one slave serving multiple builders / masters.
> I fully agree that it is highly desirable to be able to restrict how  
> many builders may run in parallel.

When considering this, keep in mind that it may be desirable for a  
slave to run builds for different masters run by different teams. I  
have a slave running a few builders for Allmydata on my amd64 box at  
home. I'd like to contribute cycles on that box to other open source  
projects as well, but I really don't want more than one or two  
builders running at once.

In chatting with Brian about this quite a while ago, he seemed to  
think that running a single slave process that polled multiple masters  
looking for work would be the easiest way to to implement this.

However, doing coordination in some way between multiple slaves on a  
single box would meet my requirements. Just don't assume that  
coordination between masters to achieve this is possible.

-Zandr