On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:06:06 +0200 Stefan Schmidt <ste...@osg.samsung.com> said:

> Hello.
> 
> On 08/10/16 02:00, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
> > That message was a bit sneaky from me, but Mike, please look after how
> > you talk to people. I'm still investing this but I cannot be looking at
> > this anyone this happens.
> >
> > One major effect from this is bulding VMs running on the same host as
> > 'prod' VMs. We have (for now) 3 jenkins slave that each can have, and
> > sometime have, 4 job running a the same time on each host, each build
> > launch with -j6. Do the math, it means we have 72 compilation running at
> > the same time. This is not really acceptable either.
> 
> What is the alternative here?
> 
> Right now (after the machine was down at the weekend) the DNS lookup 
> does not work. Resulting in every git update to fail and thus every job 
> to fail since Monday.
> 
> My understanding was that we got such a beefy machine to actually have 
> the resources to run our own CI. If you think this overloads the server 
> we should look for alternatives. Be it a service like Travis or Drone.io 
> or be it a different, CI only, server hosted somewhere else.
> 
> The current situation with Jenkins is frustrating for me. Things are 
> barely working and for any real debugging  what might be wrong on the 
> server (while it works for me locally) or any change on the system 
> itself I need you to do it. Since you moved you seem to have 
> significantly less time (which is fair) and our requests on the admins 
> side pile up and make your load even higher.
> 
> To make this crystal clear, I'm not blaming you for having less time. 
> Personal or work life often sucks up time that is just not available for 
> a spare time project (which should make fun) anymore.
> 
> It is still a frustrating situation for all people involved I think and 
> we need to find a way forward. If you think that means moving Jenkins 
> off our infrastructure let me know and we an talk about a plan how to do 
> this.
> 
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt

though its not the jenkins build slaves that are the issue when this problem
hits. it's something else. i've seen all the vm's virtually idle... and its not
a swap/ram issue either. :(


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