Hi Magnus, The description is a bit "high-level" but it looks like this could be a fit to our problem. I'm happy to give it a try!
Thorsten Am 21.01.2014 14:34, schrieb Magnus Sandberg: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about adding something like this to the Priority Sorter > (JENKINS-21214 <https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-21214>) do > you think that would be something for you? > > /Magnus > > > 2014/1/20 Benjamin Lau <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > I've always managed this by limiting the executors on the host where I > run the tests... but I'm suspecting you have a set up where each of > the VMs has its own computer/node entry in Jenkins so you have one > executor for each. > > You might be able to work around this by setting up one of your > systems as the access point for the VMs and manage all the testing > from there. That way you can still host all the tests on your single > physical machine, but you can limit the number of concurrent jobs > using the existing executor feature. > > Good luck, > > Ben > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:31 PM, <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We have a product that we are currently testing on six different > operating > > systems. Our test jobs is a matrix job that runs on six different > slaves > > (one for each OS). However, the slaves are virtual machines on a > single host > > computer. It has enough RAM and disk space for even more VMs, but > "only" six > > cores. I.e. if all matrix subjobs run at the same time, the system > will be > > overloaded. On the other hand, sequential execution just takes too > long. We > > need a mechanism to control the maximum number of concurrent > matrix subjobs > > that are allowed to run at the same time. I haven't found any > plug-in that > > can achieve this. Ideally each slave can be assigned a semaphore (the > > physical host for the VM) that has a maximum value (the number of > jobs that > > can run at the same time). Does anybody know a way to achieve this > with > > available plug-ins? How difficult would it be to create such an > extension? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Thorsten > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Jenkins Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > > email to [email protected] > <mailto:jenkinsci-users%[email protected]>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:jenkinsci-users%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/nnZXDun4ZFE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Meinl KNIME.com AG Technoparkstr. 1 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
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