Hi,
Quite often when starting a job on a Jenkins slave there is quite a
sizeable delay before the job starts.
My setup is as follows:
Jenkins Master (1.466) - WinSv 2003, physically located in
Melbourne.
Jenkins Slave (1.466 / 2.13) - Win 7, physically located in
Montreal.
Node Response Time averages around the 500ms mark.
The job starts with the following in the console output:
Started by upstream project "Run The Slave job" build number 101
Building remotely on Win7Box in workspace C:\Workspace
Here it can stop for 5 minutes or more with just the "spinny disc dial
thing" (seemed a good technical term!).
Eventually, the job starts to run and no more delays occur:
Updating http://svn.in.montreal.com/svn/my/repository
At revision 168
no change for http://svn.in.montreal.com/svn/my/repository since the
previous build
[Master] $ cmd /c call C:\Users\qatester\AppData\Local\Temp
\hudson3638314814503060690.bat
.....
I've tried looking at logs and such like, but I don't really know what
I'm looking for. I doesn't happen all the time, and is even rarer on a
slave WinXP machine also in Montreal, also with a response time of
around 500ms. With 20-30 jobs running, this is can be adding an extra
hour or so to the overall processing time of all the jobs which is a
touch frustrating.
Anyone have any ideas? I realise I may not have provided enough info
here to suitably diagnose a problem (if one really exists), so let me
know what else I can provide especially in terms of any logging.
Thanks for any assistance.
