[Python-Dev] Stable buildbots

[Paul Moore]

On 30 January 2011 20:50, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to - as you say there's no good way to hook into
> the build process in real time as the changes have to be external or
> they'll get zapped on the next checkout.  I suppose you could rapidly
> try to monitor the output of the build slave log file, but then you
> risk killing a process from a next step if you miss something or are
> too slow.  And I've had cases (after long periods of continuous
> runtime) where the build slave log stops being generated even while
> the slave is running fine.

OK, sounds like I hadn't missed anything, then, which is good in some sense :-)

> For now though, these two external "monitors" seem to have helped
> contain the number of manual operations I have to do on my two Windows
> slaves.  (Though recently I've begun seeing two new sorts of pop-ups
> under Windows 7 but both related to memory, so I think I just need to
> give my VM a little more memory)

Yes, my (somewhat more simplistic) kill scripts had done some good as well.

Having said that, http://bugs.python.org/issue9931 is currently
stopping my buildslave (at least if I run it as a service), so it's a
bit of a moot point at the moment...

(One thing that might be good is if there were a means in the
buildslave architecture to deliberately disable a test temporarily, if
it's known to fail - I know ignoring errors isn't a good thing in
general, but OTOH, having a slave effectively dead for months because
of a known issue isn't a lot of help, either :-()

Thanks for the reply.

Paul.