Runner Starvation - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Runner starvation occurs when jobs wait in a queue because no runner capacity is available, delaying CI feedback across the whole organization.
Runner starvation occurs when jobs wait in a queue because no runner capacity is available, delaying CI feedback across the whole organization.
Runner starvation occurs when jobs wait in a queue because no runner capacity is available, delaying CI feedback across the whole organization.
Common causes
A fixed pool of self-hosted runners, concurrency limits, or a burst of scheduled jobs can exhaust capacity. Autoscaling runner pools and ephemeral on-demand runners mitigate it.
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