[Anthill-pro] Changing lock during for multiple jobs

[Peter Steele]

In my case I had jobs that ran on different build agents all sharing the same source tree that is NFS mounted on each agent. Each agent is defined to be able to run up to five jobs at a time (these are quad code systems so this seemed reasonable). After the upgrade only one job at a time runs because of what I assume is a change in how locking is handled in 3.7.1 compared to 3.5.2. I have dozens of steps and I do not want to do the change manually in the GUI. I don't like getting into the DB either but it's the lesser or two evils.

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From: anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com [mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] On Behalf Of emerson cargnin
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [Anthill-pro] Changing lock during for multiple jobs

Is this needed if the jobs are suppose to be executed in different boxes?
My jobs that used to work in parallel (across several agents) in
pre-3.7.1 now work sequentially in 3.7.1.
Does this has to do with job/workflow lock? If yes, should I change to workflow lock in order to get it back to parallel.

regards
emerson

2009/11/17 Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com>:
> Is the WORKFLOW_DEFINITION_JOB_CONFIG intended to be entered as is or should that be changed to the name of the workflow (or maybe job)?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] On Behalf Of Eric 
> Minick
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:17 AM
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>
> Changing this will work for those jobs that are conflicting and are within the same workflow - the workflow will get the lock rather than the individual jobs.
>
> To perform a mass update switching the setting on all projects, you could connect t your database and apply the change there:
> UPDATE WORKFLOW_DEFINITION_JOB_CONFIG SET IS_WORKFLOW_LOCK = 1
>
> I would back-up my database before running any update commands.
>
> -- Eric
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, they do all use the same working directory (a network share). I 
>> have several workflows, each with several dozen build steps all set to use "Job"
>> lock duration. This will be a very tedious exercise to change each 
>> one from Job to Workflow. Is there any way this can be automated?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com [mailto:
>> anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] On Behalf Of Eric Minick
>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 4:16 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [Anthill-pro] "Enable Refresh" doesn't stick in 3.7.1
>>
>> This is more likely to be an issue where working directories are 
>> conflicting. Are all the jobs set to run in the same directory? If 
>> they're part of the same workflow you want to edit the workflow 
>> definition, edit each job's configuration and switch the lock type from job to workflow.
>>
>> - Eric
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Another problem I have discovered today is that even though I have 
>> > my build agents defined to run 5 jobs at a time, they seem to only 
>> > be running a single job. Is this a known issue?
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