Please don't overload the x86 buildsys

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:08:33 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> On 18.08.2008 07:36, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> Just a note: The network connection to the x86 builder is not the 
> >> fattest afaics. So if more then one big package is build and still 
> >> downloading then it seems to happen that other big packages build 
> >> directly after that will fail to download with a error message like this:
> > Ok, I'll try to be gentle with it then. 
> 
> It's afaics just a problem with really big packages -- ufoai-data, 
> mythtv and sdlmame are those where I noticed it so far.
> 
> > I assume this is timeout based, maybe we can increase the timeout?
> 
> I'm not sure if that really is a good idea -- I fear that could create 
> different trouble if to many jobs are active in parallel, as hardware 
> resources on the x86 builder are quite limited :-/
> 
> I hope that some of those problem should vanish with the reinstall of 
> the x86 builder (which will be done once the livna builder is not needed 
> anymore). The second x86-Builder will likely help a lot as well.

Could also be one of the bugs I fixed in Plague for Extras/EPEL.
It sounds like the race-condition in the file downloader.