[Box-Admins] Long running build process on build.squeak.org?

[Ken Causey]

On 01/14/2013 05:53 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> OK, turns out "there's a plugin for that" for Jenkins. The new
> build-timeout plugin's set to an "elastic timeout" which means 150% of
> the mean build time for a project and 10 minutes for a new project.
> I've applied this to SqueakTrunk*, the most likely jobs to hang like
> this.
>
> That still doesn't explain the burning smell around that last build, of course.
>
> frank

Thanks I was giving some thought (not deep and devoid of any actual 
research) into possibly writing a program to periodically evaluate the 
processes and cull those clearly outside of the reasonable running time 
range.

Regarding David's suggestion to use 'nice' to lower the process 
priority:  At this point it's not really an issue but I think once we 
have the mailing lists running on the same system that this might be a 
very good idea.  I suspect once it matters we will be reminded though.

Ken