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Thank you On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 at 7:05 PM, David Alayachew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jenkins Team, > > I have a GitHub repo with a Maven project with over 50 sub-modules, all in > the same repo. All of those sub-modules are under a single aggregate pom > file. > > I created a single Maven job pointed to the aggregate pom, and on the > first run, all sub-modules were discovered as expected. > > Now, I want these jobs to build in parallel. So, I checked the checkbox > that says "Build modules in parallel". > > But when I looked at the nodes used, all of the builds occurred on a > single node, even though there are many other nodes available. And to be > clear, it was using all executors of that node, but still limiting itself > to a single node. > > So, that meant that, even though the queue had 40+ jobs queued up, once > all the executors on that single node were occupied, it didn't matter if > any of the other nodes were free, no work would be picked up by them. > > On a second attempt, a different node was used, but the same behaviour -- > all sub-modules only executed on this second node. > > Is this behaviour overridable? Or am I potentially doing things wrong? > Again, I am only using the Jenkins Maven Job, not a Jenkinsfile or anything > like that. > > And as a workaround, I could just make a new Maven Job for each Maven > sub-module. Doing it this way, now I do actually run on many free nodes. > > But that has the downside of increasing the maintenance burden immensely. > Remember, I have over 50 sub-modules. If I need to add new functionality, > that's 50 Jenkins jobs that I need to update. Not ideal at all. > > Thank you for your time and help. > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAA9v-_M1Ex2E%2Bn2MGwH6RfT3ek0T23QX6VyQKcmRfbUhJ6N79w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAA9v-_M1Ex2E%2Bn2MGwH6RfT3ek0T23QX6VyQKcmRfbUhJ6N79w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO54Onviqjzw__p6MnVw7yG6LF0khG7QONxbYRFRCYdYvh_Hfw%40mail.gmail.com.
