Throttle plugin with a category.
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 7:46:04 PM UTC-8, cliffano wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm wondering what do you use nowadays to prevent multiple jobs from > building at the same time. > > - lock and latches plugin > Its lock mechanism does not work when multiple jobs sharing the same lock > are triggered at the same time, log files indicate that both jobs acquire > the lock. > > [locks-and-latches] Checking to see if we really have the locks > [locks-and-latches] Have all the locks, build can start > > locks and latches plugin is proposed to be deprecated > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Proposed+Plugin+Deprecation , > but the replacement plugins don't seem to provide the same functionality. > > - setting number of executors to 1 to make sure only one job can be built > at the same time > this is obviously only a work around, and not a good idea to underutilise > a build server > > - chaining the jobs and use 'Block build when upstream/downstream is > building' > Not all projects can be chained. > The chain only works for one up/down stream away job in the chain. > > How do you prevent multiple jobs from building at the same time? > > Cheers, > Cliff. >
