BF Job stops abruptly

Hi,

The project was running all right, but all of a sudden it just hangs. BF screen shows that it is running, but basically it is hanging on some random steps.

There are many steps which should be run in parallel, but somehow the project execution hangs.

On multiply retry it works but it highly inconsistent.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Ankit

Hi Ankit,

One thing to check would be how many jobs are allowed for the server that you're running on. It could be that you're at the limit for the max server jobs, and the step is waiting for a job slot to become available. Another thing to take into account is that a step with .runwait consumes two job slots.

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead

Hi,

The project was running all right, but all of a sudden it just hangs. BF screen shows that it is running, but basically it is hanging on some random steps.

There are many steps which should be run in parallel, but somehow the project execution hangs.

On multiply retry it works but it highly inconsistent.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Ankit

Hi Ankit,

One thing to check would be how many jobs are allowed for the server that you're running on. It could be that you're at the limit for the max server jobs, and the step is waiting for a job slot to become available. Another thing to take into account is that a step with .runwait consumes two job slots.

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead

Hi Brent,

I checked that... Actually, the limit is set to 10. But, I am running a project with 6-7 concurrent steps. The Job page shows the steps which were picked for running, but they never ends. Without concurrency each individual steps takes no longer than half a minute.
This behavior is inconsistent and some times when I change the order of the steps, it works.

Thanks
Ankit

Hi,

The project was running all right, but all of a sudden it just hangs. BF screen shows that it is running, but basically it is hanging on some random steps.

There are many steps which should be run in parallel, but somehow the project execution hangs.

On multiply retry it works but it highly inconsistent.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Ankit

Hi Ankit,

One thing to check would be how many jobs are allowed for the server that you're running on. It could be that you're at the limit for the max server jobs, and the step is waiting for a job slot to become available. Another thing to take into account is that a step with .runwait consumes two job slots.

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead

Hi Brent,

I checked that... Actually, the limit is set to 10. But, I am running a project with 6-7 concurrent steps. The Job page shows the steps which were picked for running, but they never ends. Without concurrency each individual steps takes no longer than half a minute.
This behavior is inconsistent and some times when I change the order of the steps, it works.

Thanks
Ankit

Hi,

I found a link in IBM site which describes about this potential problem.

https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-build-forge/releases/7.1.2.2iFix1?p=news

I tried the way it was mentioned in the website, but still it does not work at times.

Thanks
Ankit