spread: 64 workers for each system
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Current evaluation
Closed without merging. The experimental increase of spread test workers to 64 to resolve timeouts was abandoned due to high resource costs, with the author indicating a more efficient solution is required.
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Issue body
Still having routine timeout issues running spread tests.
Let's see what this does.
Signed-off-by: Chris Patterson <chris.patterson@canonical.com>
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without merging. The experimental increase of spread test workers to 64 to resolve timeouts was abandoned due to high resource costs, with the author indicating a more efficient solution is required. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without merging. The experimental increase to 64 spread workers to fix test timeouts was deemed too expensive. The author acknowledged it was meant as a draft and indicated a more efficient solution would be pursued instead. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without merging. Proposed as an experimental fix for test timeouts, the 64-worker increase was deemed too expensive. The author acknowledged it was meant to be a draft and will pursue a better solution instead. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #223 spread: increase the number of workers | rockcraft | merged | Merged to increase the number of workers in the spread system. Approved by two reviewers, passed CI checks, and modified three files with a net addition of six lines. | |
| #2615 spread: use more workers to reduce job times | snapcraft | merged | Merged to master. The change increases spread workers to reduce job execution times. Approved by one reviewer, passed CI checks, rebased by the author, and merged with minimal code changes. | |
| #514 feat: increase spread workers | rockcraft | closed | Superseded by pull request #519. The proposal to increase spread workers was abandoned after the author adopted a different optimization strategy to reduce prolonged end-to-end test execution times. |