How can I determine the maximum concurrent agents in use during an ElectricAccelerator build?
I know I can easily get the total number of agents used during a build from the annotation file. I'm interested in getting the max concurrent fanout of agents used during a build (i.e. ElectricInsight reports 36 agents were used during the build; but only 32 were actually running concurrently).
I can visually surmise this value from ElectricInsight by drawing an imaginary vertical line through the graph at a point where it appears to be running the most jobs in parallel, but I'd rather rely on an actual number generated by the system. How can I ascertain this number?
Best Answer
I wrote An Agent Utilization Report for ElectricInsight some time ago to show this information graphically.
This makes it easy to see, for example, that for about 2500 seconds of a build, there were 48 agents in use. For another ~800 seconds worth of the build, only 1 agent was in use. For a little bit, there were no agents in use.
You can download the source from my GitHub repo. Usage instructions are in the blog post.
May I know the Agent Utilization report is supported in which version of ElectricInsight? I am using version 4.0.0.3770 and it gives me error when I tried to generate the report. Unable to generate 'Agent Utilization' report: can't read "config(.reports.nb.fr.report.result18,margin,left)":no such element in array while executing "if { $pxmin < $config($w,margin,left) }{ set pxmin $config($w,margin,left) }" .......
