[Buildbot-devel] hit 640K size limit

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> I guess changes need to be compressed?
>
> So compression will only win us more time, not solve the problem.  I
> think, ideally, that we'll fix this by using a more streaming-friendly
> protocol to transfer patches.  In the interim, I guess you can raise
> these limits on the slaves as well?

Yes, I raised the limits on both sides when installing buildbot from source:
http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/source/detail?r=2631
and it works well enough.

However, on slow links, compressed changes would be a big win,
so it could be worth doing just for that.
- Dan