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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 08/12/2010 10:04 AM, Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2010 23:09:46 Michael Hudson wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:34:27 -0500, Edwin Grubbs 
> <edwin.grubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I think this shows that if we run everything through a queue, there
>>> needs to be a way to run really quick tasks in parallel with really
>>> big tasks. You wouldn't want a single POFile export for a project to
>>> be stuck behind the processing of 75k files for all of ubuntu. There
>>> could be a slow lane and a fast lane. If the jobs have a method for
>>> estimating the length of time reasonably well, we could also have a
>>> super-fast lane, where the page decides not to queue the task at all.
>>
>> https://dev.launchpad.net/CodeTeam/ExpressLane is an idea of Aaron's in
>> this direction.
> 
> That seems awfully similar to the build farm's scoring mechanism.

I really don't think the express lane is similar to the build farm's
scoring mechanism.  The express lane does not require the use of scores.
 And its purpose is to ensure that tasks which can complete quickly have
low latency, which is not a characteristic that the build farm currently
has.

Aaron
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