Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results
Date: 2012-09-04 21:53:48
Message-ID: 1346795561-sup-1831@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mar sep 04 18:49:46 -0300 2012:
> On 9/1/12 12:12 PM, Robert Creager wrote:
> >
> > I change the build-farm.conf file to have the following make line:
> >
> > make => 'make -j 8', # or gmake if required. can include path if
> > necessary.
> >
> > 2 pass, 4 fail. Is this a build configuration you want to pursue?
>
> Sure that would be useful, but it's pretty clear that the check stages
> don't work in parallel. It think it's because the ports conflict, but
> there could be any number of other problems.

Is that really the problem? As far as I know, buildfarm doesn't use
anything like installcheck-world or similar targets; each check target
is run separately, serially, by the BF script.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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