[Buildbot-devel] Practical limit to number of builders?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Wed Oct 1 17:59:29 UTC 2014


It's a build matrix only, no test-only builders (well, two or three).
Axes are version, platform, project.
There are about ten of each.
We do have a web page with links like
http://buildhost:8011/waterfall?category=foo
to let people see just a subset of it, but even that's too slow now.


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ouch..
>
> With this number of builders you will probably need customized dashboard.
>
> What is you usecase? Is it mostly test matrix?
> what is the number of axes for your matrix?
>
> Pierre
>
> Pierre
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.  With buildbot-0.8.x, I'm running 1112 builders on a single
>> buildmaster
>> ( a Xeon X5450 ).  It is definitely getting too sluggish.
>>
>> I've been putting off splitting it because then I'll have to double
>> the slaves (so slaves aren't building for more than one master),
>> which'll be painful.
>>
>> How much snappier is the new web ui?
>>
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