I have a build with a finish build trigger and i want to limit it to run only in specific time domain (e.g. between 4 AM to 5 AM) regardless to the finish build trigger, any suggestions?
Another solution is to pause build configuration. You can pause build configuration using REST API.
You could remove the finish build trigger and add an extra step to the triggering build which calls the rest api.
By adding a bit of logic around the call the check the time is in the required range, you should be able to achieve what you are after.
You can use cron-like expressions to write schedule triggers that will trigger your build at customized times. You can read the teamcity specs here
For example , if you want to run a target everyday at 4.30 AM , you would have to define it in the following syntax.
Seconds 0
Minutes 30
Hours 4
Day-of-month *
Month *
Day-of-week ?
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I have a situation where an API is called by 500 users/threads every 10 minutes.
I have created a jmeter script for this. It takes around 4 to 5 minutes to get response for all the 500 threads.
Now I have created a batch file to execute this jmx file. This batch file is then called every 10 minutes using task scheduler in windows.
I am not sure whether this is the best approach.
Have read about test action sampler / Timers / Think time etc.
Please can someone advise which is recommended in my case.
My requirement is to trigger the thread group every 10 minutes irrespective of how long the the previous run took.
According to Linus Torvalds
If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect
Given your approach works fine for your use case you should be good to go.
Personally I would be interested in test results as well (not sure how you're handling them), perhaps a better idea would be putting your script under orchestration of a Continuous Integration server like Jenkins, it provides flexible options on triggering the jobs (including scheduling) and you will be able to get some statistics, trends and conditionally mark your tests as passed or failed basing on the response time using Performance Plugin
I need to schedule job to run twice a day everyday i.e. first run at 1 AM and second run at 11 PM. As you can see there is no way I can use option "repeat range".
So my question is what is the better way to do it:
1. set two run cycles (DAILY and DAILY2), check the "use as time dependency" and set the earliest start for each
2. create two identical jobs (with different names) and set the time restriction on the job level (under one run cycle DAILY)
It seems like there is no difference, but in TWS you never know so what do you recommend? Thanks
I would use 2 different runcycles with different start times defined at runcycle level.
The use of "use as time dependency" is optional in this scenario, this is up to you if you want to not start before 1 AM / 11 PM or if this is just to create 2 instances with 2 different schedTime and resolve the dependencies according to these schedTimes.
In the set of my TeamCity configurations, I decided to make something like an aging test*. And run a single configuration for a 100 times.
Can I make in a few simple clicks?
*aging test - test that is showing, that due time/aging, results will not be changed.
As of now, this is not possible from UI. If you run one build configuration few times without any changes, they will be merged and only 1 will be executed. If you want to run 100, you have to trigger them one by one, after the previous one finished executing.
But the better solution is to trigger builds from script using REST API (for more details see the documentation here), if builds have different values in custom parameters they all will be put in the queue.
HOW: Define a dummy custom parameter, and trigger the build from script within a loop. Pass the value of iterating variable as parameter value. So, TeamCity will think those are different builds and execute all of them.
I have a single agent and many builds. There are frequently several builds in the queue that take an hour a piece to execute. I want to trigger daily at a specific time a build which takes less than five seconds but needs to run immediately (next in the queue). Is there any way to do this?
Build priorities are suggested in various places but they do not help. I set the priority to the max value of 100 and it was placed at 15 out of 17 in the queue.
You can use Teamcity REST to trigger the build and put on top of the queue. You can make use of triggering option queueAtTop="true"
I ended up working around the problem and moving this build to another practically dedicated teamcity agent which means this executes promptly. This is not a good solution and I would prefer to accept an actual answer if anyone is able to offer one.
I have to set up a cron job on my hosting provider.
This cron job needs to run every second. It's not intensive, just doing a check.
The hosting provider however only allows cron jobs to be run every two minutes. (can't change hosting btw)
So, I'm clueless on how to go about this?
My thoughts so far:
If it can only run every two minutes, I need to make it run every second for two minutes. 1) How do I make my script run for two minutes executing a function every second?
But it's important that there are no interruptions. 2) I have to ensure that it runs smoothly and that it remains constantly active.
Maybe I can also try making it run forever, and run the cron job every two minutes checking whether it is running? 3) Is this possible?
My friend mentioned using multithreading to ensure it's running every second. 4) any comments on this?
Thanks for any advice. I'm using ZF.
Approach #3 is the standard solution. For instance you can have the cron job touch a file every time it runs. Then on startup you can check whether that file has been touched recently, and if it has then exit immediately. Else start running. (Other approaches include using file locking, or else writing the pid to a file and on startup check whether that pid exists and is the expected program.)
As for the one second timeout, I would suggest calling usleep at the end of your query, supplying the number of milliseconds from now to when you next want to run. If you do a regular sleep then you'll actually run less than once a second because sleeps sometimes last longer than expected, and your check takes time. As long as your check takes under a second to run, this should work fine.
I don't think cron allows second level resolution. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5
field allowed values
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minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day of month 1-31
month 1-12 (or names, see below)
day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
So, even if your hosting provider allows you can't run a process that repeats every second. However, you can user command something like watch for repeated execution of your script. see here