> On 16 Jan 2017, at 15:05, Neels Hofmeyr <[email protected]> wrote: > > But the build slave queue is getting awfully long sometimes and builds are > just > sitting and waiting for a long time. But when I 'top' on the build slave, I > see > the CPU idling between 50% and 90% ... assuming that the CPU activity in > docker > is also shown on the host OS. So now I increased the nr of executors to 3, > seraching the optimum that still avoids the 'Broken Pipe' error. Would of > course be much nicer to fix this particular curious failure and just hammer > the > nr of executors up to the roof again.
thank you. I assume we run into a user limit but I don't know how to make the kernel report it (or which mib file to read). So another dimension is to use sysctl to tune things... holger
