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"Reserve" a build worker

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Paul Cook

22 Dec, 2016 11:20 AM

I have many small (fast to build) projects that occasionally get stuck behind a large "juggernaut" project. It would be great to be able to "reserve" a worker specifically for my small fast projects. I already use build priority but this would be even better for us.

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 23 Dec, 2016 07:45 PM

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    Hi Paul,

    You can't reserve a build worker, but you can "throttle" large project, by limiting the maximum number of concurrent jobs allowed for it (in appveyor.yml):

    max_jobs: 1

  2. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:10 AM.

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