Run buildbot builder on one of the available slaves

Question

I have a buildbot 0.8.6p1 configured. There is one master and one slave, so far. It is possible to configure several slaves:

c['slaves'] = [
    BuildSlave("eng-hwsim-n1", "123")
    BuildSlave("eng-hwsim-n2", "123")
]

It is also possible to add slave or slaves to the array of builders:

c['builders'].append(
    BuilderConfig(name="runnightly-top",
        slavenames=["eng-hwsim-n1", "eng-hwsim-n2"],
        factory=fac_nightly_top,
        builddir='../../runnightly-top',
        slavebuilddir='runnightly-top'))

In this case, will buildbot run the same builder on all slaves or one of the slaves? Is there a way to configure buildbot to run a builder on one of the slaves, whichever is available/least loaded/etc?

Thanks so much.

Answer 1

The builder will only build with one slave from the pool of slaves. If I understand correctly, this is the behavior you desire.