[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot performance with 25+ slaves

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
> There are scattered reports (http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/1992 and
> http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2055) of livelock problems.  One was
> due to a bug in Python tickled by OpenBSD's pthreads implementation,
> while the other appears to be due to the way 'buildbot start' works.
> Consider starting buildbot with 'twistd -noy buildbot.tac' instead,
> and see if that helps.

+1 on that.  I *never* use 'buildbot start' anymore, it's a time bomb.