Hi,
The RDO slave currently has 15 execution threads running on two cores and 4GB of RAM. As we use ci.centos more and more for gating and periodic jobs, I can see that the slave starts to struggle a little bit CPU-wise when the execution threads are busy.
The bulk of the jobs are offloaded to an ephemeral bare metal node but ansible still runs from the slave. Some jobs do run locally, such as smaller tox jobs.
What's the strategy if we want to scale this ? For example, do we want to scale in increments of "10 threads/2 cores/4 GB RAM" by adding more slaves as need be or do we want to grow the specifications of the existing slave and grow the amount of threads ?
I have a personal preference to have more smaller slaves as this also has the added benefit of redundancy so we're not left entirely out in the cold if this one big slave happens to crash.
David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
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