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The system limits how many processes it attempts
to run on any one server. The
Max Jobs property
specifies the limit on the number of processes. The default value
for this property is 3.
Note: Other programs can run on the server.
The system limit applies only to Build Forge jobs.
Note: The
built-in variables BF_RESERVE and BF_EXCLUSIVE control the reservation
of one or all of a server's job slots. See
Pre-set properties for
more information.
Note: Configure your xinetd.conf when
you use bfagent on Linux or Unix, because the
concurrent running jobs will generate many socket connections. If
you encounter the "ERROR: Exception communicating with endpoint" message,
try to increase the instances and per_source values.
To give a server a non-default value, do the following: