[llvm-dev] Fwd: buildbot failure in LLVM on sanitizer-ppc64-linux1

Philip Reames via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Nov 3 14:47:43 PST 2015



On 11/03/2015 08:14 AM, Bill Seurer wrote:
> On 11/02/15 20:04, Philip Reames wrote:
>> However, a 30-40 minute build cycle is fairly long.  In practice, I tend
>> to devote the first couple of minutes after a patch submission to
>> watching for problems (while checking email say), but after 20-30
>> minutes without problems, I've moved on to something else and might not
>> notice a problem report.  I'd see it eventually, but that might be
>> several hours later or even the next day.  Anything we can do to reduce
>> cycle time increases the odds that problems will get seen and addressed
>> quickly.
>
> I have been tweaking the buildbot settings and moving bots between 
> systems and in the past month I've reduced the run times by 50-75% for 
> most of the power bots.  Unfortunately now I just need more hardware 
> and that's just not going to happen in the near term.
Thank you for making the effort.  It's much appreciated.

Philip



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