[Buildbot-devel] 'latent' build host on network power switch

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Andy Howell <andy at gamubaru.com> wrote:
> The dlipower class uses urllib2, which does not seem thread safe. All its
> doing is some html screen scaping using BeautifulSoup, and requesting
> special urls to control the power. Maybe I'd be better off to implement that
> with Twisted.

Sounds like it.  You may also be able to replace the pings with TCP
connection attempts to the slave port.

Dustin