[Buildbot-devel] SlaveLocks

[Marcus Lindblom]

I think there are a few tickets filed against this. Could to take a look 
at the tickets on load sharing on buildbot.net?

Cheers,
/Marcus

Markus Kramer wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> so is there maybe some difference in versions of buildbot we are using. 
> Mine should all be 0.7.9, but still do not properly share. I can see 
> that i get a connect message for bot slaves to the builder, but 
> scheduled builds always go to machine 1, and when pressing the force 
> build button also. Seems i need to have a look at the code over the weekend.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> Neil Hemingway wrote:
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>> That's exactly the config I use, and my builds get distributed across
>> my 3 slaves
>>
>> Neil
>>
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>> On 13/02/2009, *Markus Kramer* <markus.kramer-SLPT3ORPss/5Km1axIVvkA at public.gmane.org 
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>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     i am just trying to setup some new buildmachines within our buildbot
>>     system. The original idea was to have load sharing with some machines,
>>     but somehow it does not work as expected.
>>     I have setup multiple builders containing the following lines in their
>>     build description:
>>
>>     'slavenames':[ "win-ia32-xp-b1","win-ia32-xp-b2"],
>>     'locks': [xp_sl],
>>
>>
>>     In addition i defined the lock like this in the top of config:
>>
>>     xp_sl = locks.SlaveLock("cpuxp2",maxCount=1)
>>
>>
>>     I would have assumed that due to the fact that SlaveLocks are kept per
>>     Slave, this would effectivly distribute the builds among these machines,
>>     with only one build going on per Machine, but instead i still see
>>     all the builds competing for access to machine b1.
>>
>>     Is the availability of locks not considered when selecting buildslave?
>>     Is there probably some other method to make each build go to next free
>>     slave and only queue when all of them are blocked?
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>
>>     Markus
>>
>>
>>
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