[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot performance with 25+ slaves

[John Carr]

On 17 Nov 2012, at 14:50, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I think I fixed my own time bomb problems when I moved from sqlite to mysql.