I've always managed this by limiting the executors on the host where I run the tests... but I'm suspecting you have a set up where each of the VMs has its own computer/node entry in Jenkins so you have one executor for each.
You might be able to work around this by setting up one of your systems as the access point for the VMs and manage all the testing from there. That way you can still host all the tests on your single physical machine, but you can limit the number of concurrent jobs using the existing executor feature. Good luck, Ben On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:31 PM, <thorsten.me...@knime.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a product that we are currently testing on six different operating > systems. Our test jobs is a matrix job that runs on six different slaves > (one for each OS). However, the slaves are virtual machines on a single host > computer. It has enough RAM and disk space for even more VMs, but "only" six > cores. I.e. if all matrix subjobs run at the same time, the system will be > overloaded. On the other hand, sequential execution just takes too long. We > need a mechanism to control the maximum number of concurrent matrix subjobs > that are allowed to run at the same time. I haven't found any plug-in that > can achieve this. Ideally each slave can be assigned a semaphore (the > physical host for the VM) that has a maximum value (the number of jobs that > can run at the same time). Does anybody know a way to achieve this with > available plug-ins? How difficult would it be to create such an extension? > > Cheers, > > Thorsten > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
