Re: Buildbot Performance

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 17, 2021, at 07:36, Christopher Nielsen wrote:

> As for overcommitment: I’m simply suggesting that we reduce the number of 
> vCPUs per builder, from eight to six.

And I'm suggesting that doing so will slow things down in those situations when 
only one or two VMs on a host are busy.

If I reduce the number of vCPUs from 8 to 6, then there would be 2 GB extra RAM 
per VM in each server that I could move elsewhere.


> Otherwise, the formula MacPorts base uses to calculate builds jobs and such 
> is fine as-is, and I’m not advocating that we change it.