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
>     >
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