[Ci-users] Reaping at 12 hrs instead of 2 days

On 22/01/16 17:02, James wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> In the coming days, we are going to start moving towards reaping
>> orphaned machines every 12 hrs. At the moment, machines are reclaimed on
>> the second date change ( ie. if you provisioned at 00:01 on anyday, you
>> get 48 hrs before the machine is reclaimed, or if you provisioned at
>> 23:59, you get 24 hrs ). Going forward, this will reduce to 12 hrs.
>>
>> Looking through the last month worth of reclaimed nodes, it looks like
>> the longest running roles typically finish in under 2 hrs or thereabouts
>> - so 12 hrs should still be plenty of head room. Machines that dont
>> usually returned within 3 hrs + are the ones we almost exclusively end
>> up reclaiming on the timeout.
>>
>> Therefore, this 12 hr timeout should not impact anyone / any jobs. Let
>> me know if thats not the case.
>>
>> Regards
> 
> 
> I agree that this is a good idea, but in addition it would be useful
> to know which users/jobs are not reaping themselves so that they can
> fix their build scripts!
> 

We do try and communicate back with the projects, if you havent had
Brian reach out yet, your jobs are ok :)

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