[Jenkins-infra] Headsup: Another safe restart scheduled for jenkins.ci.cloudbees.com

R. Tyler Croy tyler at monkeypox.org
Fri Nov 20 14:34:02 UTC 2015


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On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Adam Papai wrote:

> Nah, it's the slaves not the master. It's not the restarts of the master
> but the elimination of the slaves completely. They need to be rotated
> sometimes.


Are you volunteering to help split it up? :)

I'm 100% confident that it can be broken up (zomg workflow) but it's a question
of time and effort really


> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Baptiste Mathus <bmathus at batmat.net> wrote:
> 
> > I suppose this is a freestyle job?
> >
> > How about converting it to a workflow one? Because if this is the Jenkins
> > restart that mostly bothers you, as workflow can continue where it left off
> > after restart, that shouldn't be an issue anymore then?
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > 2015-11-20 12:03 GMT+01:00 Adam Papai <apapai at cloudbees.com>:
> >
> >> For example at Prezi, my main job was to speed up the 1-2hr jobs to run
> >> them as fast as we can.
> >>
> >> So I had a job which parsed all the tests and updated/creaed a matrix
> >> configuration job  based on the specific test run-times. We had several
> >> thousand tests. Before the whole test suite took 1-2hrs. After this "hack",
> >> the test suit took around 90sec.
> >>
> >> The downside was that sometimes a few jobs were running in a different
> >> configuration - based on the previous run time - so they were shifted
> >> +1/-1, so I had another job which collected all test results from this
> >> matrix job, concatenated all of them into 1 test result and did the report.
> >> :)
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Adam Papai <apapai at cloudbees.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wanted to ask you guys if it's possible to split this 4+hrs long test
> >>> harness job to smaller pieces.
> >>>
> >>> https://jenkins.ci.cloudbees.com/job/core/job/acceptance-test-harness/
> >>>
> >>> It makes it pretty hard to do maintenance during CET timezone (my
> >>> timezone) while there is always a job running. If we could split it up to
> >>> smaller pieces, that would be much faster and won't allocate a slave for
> >>> 5-6 hrs. Sometimes we need to terminate / replace slaves and usually this
> >>> jobs blocks the procedure.
> >>>
> >>> I could of course just abort the job, but I don't want to do that.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:38 PM, R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I've downloaded some upgraded workflow jobs to fix some little bumps I
> >>>> was
> >>>> hitting with workflowization of things.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm waiting for the acceptance tests to finish, so maybe sometime
> >>>> tonight the
> >>>> Jenkins instance will restart :P
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> - R. Tyler Croy
> >>>>
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> >
> > --
> > Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net
> > Sauvez un arbre,
> > Mangez un castor !
> >

- R. Tyler Croy

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