On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we have any convention/policy on how long a job can run before it's > killed, so as to play nice with others? I've got some long running tests > that I want to run once a week on Saturday morning (early, US time). For > now they would be on the main build servers, since Mahout doesn't have it's > own jail/zone.
Not really. We do run a script to set time outs on all jobs every other month or so. This script will use the estimated build time from Jenkins times three. How long time are we talking about here? For very long running jobs (several hours) I would encourage you to look into getting a jail. If the run time is a few hours: the Ubuntu and Solaris slaves are pretty busy, so if you would be able to run the build on for example the BSD slave instead, that would probably work better. /niklas
