Job Count Increase For (Apparently) No Reason
We just updated our Build Forge server to 7.1.2.2-1.0111. After this upgrade we have been seeing some weird behavior with job counts arbitrarily increasing. We have several steps of build processes that are threaded/broadcasted. When those occur sometimes one of the machines of the pool will refuse to launch the step. Since it is a broadcast step the build will not continue.
When I look at the server page I see the machine has a job (most of our machines have a job limit of 1). So I reset the job counter. Sometimes this causes the server to join and sometimes it causes the job counter to actually go up! These machines don't do anything but this one project so they are not being used by any other project.
Has anyone seen this with this version? This was not a problem we had before we updated and nothing else has changed. Any help is greatly appreciated!
When I look at the server page I see the machine has a job (most of our machines have a job limit of 1). So I reset the job counter. Sometimes this causes the server to join and sometimes it causes the job counter to actually go up! These machines don't do anything but this one project so they are not being used by any other project.
Has anyone seen this with this version? This was not a problem we had before we updated and nothing else has changed. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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We just updated our Build Forge server to 7.1.2.2-1.0111. After this upgrade we have been seeing some weird behavior with job counts arbitrarily increasing. We have several steps of build processes that are threaded/broadcasted. When those occur sometimes one of the machines of the pool will refuse to launch the step. Since it is a broadcast step the build will not continue.
When I look at the server page I see the machine has a job (most of our machines have a job limit of 1). So I reset the job counter. Sometimes this causes the server to join and sometimes it causes the job counter to actually go up! These machines don't do anything but this one project so they are not being used by any other project.
Has anyone seen this with this version? This was not a problem we had before we updated and nothing else has changed. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Hi,
This sounds similar to the following defect:
BF engine allows server job counts to exceed server max jobs setting
Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead
Hi,
This sounds similar to the following defect:
BF engine allows server job counts to exceed server max jobs setting
Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead
Thank you for this link. I did have a project that had a threaded step followed by a join/broadcasted step. I believe, if I am reading the defect correctly, that I should set the threaded step that is before the join/broadcast step to join. I have done that and have not seen the defect yet (although it wasn't 100%).
I will keep on the look for the next couple of days and reply if this work around does not fix it. Thank you!