On 09/11/2013 10:00 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]> writes:
On 09/10/2013 10:58 AM, Andrew Deason wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:43:29 -0400
Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
A build slave can be behind a NAT but if so it must be administered
by someone with NAT access.
Why? Does the master need to be able to TCP-Connect() to the slave?
No, the slave connects to the master. You (or someone behind the NAT)
just need to handle upgrading or fixing buildbot itself (or anything
else on the box) if it breaks or needs upgrading or whatever.
The goal for a build slave is that it can perform a git checkout and
build the tree in under 20 minutes. The network/cpu/disk-space
requirements are those necessary to achieve that goal.
Alas, that doesn't give me a good estimate of required network or cpu.
For disk space I'm guessing the slave doesn't keep many builds around?
No, it doesn't keep any builds after they're done. You just need the
disk space for a single build, the git repo, and maybe a little bit for
logs and buildbot overhead. The latter I believe is very small compared
to any of the other items.
The entire disk partition that contains the buildbot master and slave
is 6GB with ~3GB used.
Well, in that case, I have a VM server that I'm willing to leverage for
a few Fedora and/or CentOS slaves if you can use them. I'm happy to
host and administer the slaves. (Beyond just a few slaves might tax the
hardware too much, affecting the other VMs; the host is currently
memory-bound and extending the RAM is way expensive because it requires
8 sticks of DDR2).
-derek
Hi Derek,
We don't have a Fedora build slave, so that would be welcome. Would your
VM server be able to handle multiple slaves building at the same time?
In addition to the performance impact, I think that the group was
divided on whether dissimilar buildslaves would be acceptable.
Here is a guide for setting up a buildslave:
http://openafs-wiki.stanford.edu/BuildbotSlaveHowto/
Here is a puppet module for installing buildbot, but it's only for
Debian/Ubuntu at the moment:
https://github.com/edgester/puppet-module-buildbot
I'll have to configure any new slaves on the master before that can join
the build pool.
Let me know if you have any questions or problems.
Jason
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