On 16 Jan 2017, at 15:05, Neels Hofmeyr
<nhofmeyr(a)sysmocom.de> 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