[Python-Dev] Stable buildbots (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 18:49:36 CET 2010

On 14 November 2010 02:40, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:

There's been a bit of an uptick in the past few weeks with hung pythond processes (not a new issue, but it ebbs and flows), so I'm going to try to pull together a monitor script this weekend to start killing them off automatically.  Should at least get rid of some of the low hanging fruit that interferes with subsequent builds.

My buildslave (x86 XP-5, see http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/buildslaves/moore-windows) runs buildbot as a service. I set it up that way as I assumed that would be the most sensible approach to avoid manual intervention on reboots, keeping a user session permanently running, etc. But it seems that there are a few areas where things don't work quite right when run from a service (see, for example, http://bugs.python.org/issue9931) and I assumed that some of my hung python_d processes were related to that.

Do you run your slave as a service? (And for that matter, what do other Windows slave owners do?) Are there any "best practices" for ongoing admin of a Windows buildslave that might be worth collecting together? (I'll try to put some notes on what I've found together - maybe a page on the Python wiki would be the best place to collect them).

Paul.

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