[Python-Dev] Buildbot for AIX

[C. Titus Brown]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 06:50:32PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > However running 2 different slaves per host in order to distinguish xlc 
> > and gcc would be OK; though I would appreciate if they could run 
> > sequentially rather than in parallel as that would limit the host load.
> 
> If there are two separate slaves, I can't think of any simple way to run
> builds sequentially. Perhaps you can assign both of them to a single CPU
> (assuming AIX allows that).

You can specify a slave lock to do this, in buildbot:

http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.8.1/Interlocks.html

One the neat things that a master/slave system like buildbot provides...

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu