Resources for automated builds and testing

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/17/2012 04:47 PM, Eyal Edri wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike Burns"<mburns at redhat.com>
>> To: "infra"<infra at ovirt.org>, "board"<board at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:41:12 PM
>> Subject: Resources for automated builds and testing
>>
>> Are there any plans to have additional resources for Jenkins?  There
>> is
>> an almost constant queue of builds waiting to run.  If we continue to
>> develop automated testing, then this will only continue to get worse.
>> We've already had to disable all gerrit integration which is not an
>> ideal situation for continuous testing.  Additional resources,
>> whether
>> they're EC2 or some other public cloud offering, or provided by one
>> of
>> the sponsor companies, would be a huge help.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> +10 on this.
>
> I Keep battling with memory issues on ec2 and prolonged run times which cause an occasional failures.
> also, like mike said, it prevent us from running patches testing from gerrit and other automation jobs (which some require an actual physical server).

we need to find a hosting solution of sort for physical servers. the EC2 
guests are very slow on performance (x2/x3 time to complete a job 
compared to physical we are used to), and can't run virt tests.