Build Queue max size

[Ronan LE BRUN]

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a known limit to the Build Queue in Jenkins and how it can be changed/removed if it is the case?

I intend to use Jenkins as a builder for exhaustive unitary functional tests. Those tests are created from test campaigns of our Application Lifecycle Management solution and I had planned to make Jenkins handle the scheduling, balancing, build and monitoring of those tests.

However when I try to stress Jenkins with several hundreds builds of a job with unique parameters I notice an approximative limit of 150 builds in the Build Queue and the HTTP build requests start to wait for a build to finish before returning.

Regards,
Ronan

[Ronan LE BRUN]

Small follow-up to close the case.

The limit I was experiencing in the build queue was due to the test I was using to stress Jenkins, which was a simple echo. Since the tests were quick to finish and I had lots of requests coming in Jenkins was a bit slow to answer, enough to look like it was waiting for a build to finish...

Now with a sleep of 10 seconds in the test I can stress Jenkins as I wanted with thousands of builds and it still works pretty good (congrats!).

Sorry for the trouble!

Ronan