Just to be strictly accurate, the last PTP run took 22 minutes, not 22 hours. In any case, I don't check the hudson page regularly so I had no idea that it was being shut down and this job was holding things up. An email to this list would have helped.
Greg On Feb 8, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Ed Willink wrote: > Hi Miles > > I suspect that the 'longest' job is often a job that is waiting for > deadlocked broken daemons to magically unlock/time-out. > > I know that on a couple of occasions MDT/OCL was one of the blockers even > though I had explicitly killed the problem jobs. > > Regards > > Ed > > > On 08/02/2012 18:09, Miles Parker wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I wanted to bring up a Hudson annoyance and see if people had ideas for >> improving this. What's happening now is that any time Hudson gets sent a >> shutdown, everyone is locked out until the last job in queue finishes. Which >> is a) Good news for the people with running builds, b) Bad news for everyone >> else. Observing that most of the time most of us are in category b) I vote >> for making things work better for group b). Nothing against PTP :D, but they >> happen to be in group a) this time around and the last run took 22 hours. :O >> But there are lot's of long builds out there. This means that snapshots are >> delayed for everyone. >> >> So I'm wondering if it might be possible to have some kind of policy where >> builds are terminated with prejudice under shutdown. I'm not sure if a) this >> is even supportable OOTB in Hudson, and b) whether that would have the >> possibility of FUBAR'ing anyone project builds. As project builds should not >> be relying on previous state, I would say that the answer to b is probably >> no. I also imagine allowance should be made for key builds such as >> aggregator. IIRC in the past when in release panic mode we were triggering >> hard shutdowns from time to time. >> >> thoughts? >> >> Miles >> _______________________________________________ >> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >> cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4794 - Release Date: 02/07/12 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
