Re: [boost] Travis CI Resources

Subject: Re: [boost] Travis CI Resources
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-22 14:05:52

James E. King, III wrote:

> The desire is to ensure that pull requests submitted to repositories are 
> processed in a timely manner.  This is not happening, and there is at 
> least a 12 hour backlog on pull request builds for boostorg right now.

This is caused by Travis Mac resources being insufficient. There is a 
multiple day backlog for Mac jobs, and it doesn't seem to be going away - 
Travis increased their job count from 180 to 204 temporarily for the 
weekend, it didn't help, the backlog is at the moment at 1100+ and keeps 
growing. Look at https://www.traviscistatus.com/ for the stats.

This should in principle not affect the Linux-only .travis.yml 
configurations, but it does, because the queued Mac jobs result in only 3 
parallel jobs being available for Linux builds, instead of the usual 5.

I'd say that boostorg/math might scale down its Mac jobs a bit. :-)

If this persists, we should probably not use Mac jobs at all, although they 
are kind of essential for Config and Build. Most other repos have a single 
Mac job, with a few exceptions.