[Buildbot-devel] How to configure slaves for multiple builds with the same builder?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Jason Edgecombe
<jason at rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
> I have three slaves: windows, linux, and irix. Each gerrit commit is
> built on all of the slaves, then the status is reported to gerrit. The
> workflow is working well, but the irix box is a little slower on the
> builds. The irix machine has 4 CPU's, but only one build is running at
> one time. How can I configure a slave/builder to run multiple builds at
> the same time?

Run four irix builders, all configured to use the same slave.  Each
builder only runs one build at a time - each builder has one directory
it does its builds in, so if your current configuration *did* try to
run four builds at a time, they would stomp all over one another.

Dustin

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