Buildbot Performance

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 17, 2021, at 07:36, Christopher Nielsen wrote:

> As for overcommitment: I’m simply suggesting that we reduce the number of vCPUs per builder, from eight to six.

And I'm suggesting that doing so will slow things down in those situations when only one or two VMs on a host are busy.

If I reduce the number of vCPUs from 8 to 6, then there would be 2 GB extra RAM per VM in each server that I could move elsewhere.


> Otherwise, the formula MacPorts base uses to calculate builds jobs and such is fine as-is, and I’m not advocating that we change it.