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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] travis.yml: Limit simultaneous jobs to 3
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:25:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210217102531.1441557-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)

Even though the host machines that run the Travis CI jobs have
quite a lot of CPUs (e.g. nproc in an aarch64 job reports 32), the
containers on Travis are still limited to 2 vCPUs according to:

 https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/overview/#approx-boot-time

So we do not gain much when compiling with a job number based on
the output of "getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN" - quite the contrary, the
aarch64 containers are currently aborting quite often since they
are running out of memory. Thus let's rather use a fixed number
like 3 in the jobs here, so that e.g. two threads can actively run
while a third one might be waiting for I/O operations to complete.
This should hopefully fix the out-of-memory failures in the aarch64
CI jobs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 See also this URL for the explanation of the 32 vs 2 CPUs on aarch64:
 https://travis-ci.community/t/nproc-reports-32-cores-on-arm64/5851

 .travis.yml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fc27fd6330..cc39a447e8 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ git:
 # Common first phase for all steps
 before_install:
   - if command -v ccache ; then ccache --zero-stats ; fi
-  - export JOBS=$(($(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) + 1))
+  - export JOBS=3
   - echo "=== Using ${JOBS} simultaneous jobs ==="
 
 # Configure step - may be overridden
-- 
2.27.0



             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-17 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17 10:25 Thomas Huth [this message]
2021-02-17 10:33 ` [PATCH] travis.yml: Limit simultaneous jobs to 3 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-17 11:57 ` Alex Bennée

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