This sounds awesome, thanks to everybody involved! On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:28 PM Yifan Zou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > Most of you already know about upgrades on Jenkins machines this week. I > still want to share some details you might interested in. > > In April 24th, we had 16 new GCE instances (beam9 - 24) setup under gcloud > project 'apache-beam-testing' for Beam Jenkins. The old machines are > currently disconnected and they will be removed in next week. Major updates > are as follows: > > -- Upgraded machine type from n1-standard-4 (4 vCPUs, 15GB RAM) to > n1-highmem-16 (16 vCPUs, 104GB Ram); > -- Upgraded OS from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04; > -- Increased quantity of instances to 16; > -- Installed the latest version of packages and underlying tools; > > The overall build duration are dropping and the stability is improved > since the new powerful machines. In addition, python tests are no longer > limited to some specific nodes. It significantly reduce the waiting time in > job queue. For example, before swapping, the average waiting time of 10 > latest Python PreCommits was 22.2 minutes, and now it drops to 10 seconds! > > Special thanks to Alan Myrvold and Jason Kuster for helping on the smooth > swapping process. > > Regards. > Yifan Zou >
