On Dec 1, 2013, at 17:01, Joshua Root wrote:

> Are the cleaners coming in every weekend and unplugging the server or
> something? :)

It’s unavailable again, and it is the weekend again, which is either a 
coincidence or a relevant diagnostic…

But Joshua I’m wondering if the “all ports” build you’re initiating is just too 
much for the new Mavericks buildbot to handle all at once and it’s bringing 
down the rest of the system — before the December 1 outage, the build had been 
running non-stop for 8 days; I don’t know how far it got in that time. Or 
possibly one specific port is causing the problem, and it just takes awhile to 
reach it.

During the build, none of the archives that are being built are being uploaded 
to the packages server; it’s crummy to have an archive built but then not 
uploaded and made available to users until over a week later.

Instead of building all ports, maybe we could have the buildbot build smaller 
subsets of ports. That way the packages would be available to users sooner. Can 
we use normal port selectors with the buildbot? For example, only ports with 
names beginning with letter a (“name:^a”), or only ports in category python 
(“category:python”).

We could even just let the Mavericks buildbot run normally for awhile, building 
ports that are getting changed, and see if it survives a weekend that way.



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