[Box-Admins] box3 may be slowing down a bit

[Frank Shearar]

On 3 January 2013 18:43, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> I have a watchdog timer in my InterpreterVM job so that the Squeak image
> will exit if the job is not complete within some time period. I was
> starting to get failures on the builds as job runtime exceeded 10 minutes,
> so I bumped my timer up from 10 to 15 minutes, and all is well again.
>
> Nothing to worry about, just FYI as we will need to keep an eye on
> total load as we add more processing to the system.

It looks like it's perfectly possible to run slaves in a headless
fashion, so that they can run behind NATs and connect _to_ the master.
The angband node is an example of this. So scaling CI horizontally is
easy, by people who can run slaves as and when they're able.

frank

> Dave
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