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

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 08/22/2010 04:43 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> 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
>
>    
Thanks. I'll try that.

Jason