How to increase Bamboo Specs detection pool size
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Summary
At times, plans that run on Bamboo Specs have a large backlog of scans to run and need to increase the pool size.
Environment
Bamboo with repository-stored Specs enabled.
Applicable to all versions of Bamboo.
Solution
By default, the specs.detection.thread is set to 4. To increase the pool size follow the steps below:
Edit your
setenv.shfile under path<bamboo-install>/bin/setenv.shAdd the following
-Dbamboo.specs.detection.threads=6to your JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS.
E.g:.
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# Occasionally Atlassian Support may recommend that you set some specific JVM arguments. You can use this variable below to do that.
#
: ${JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS:="-Dbamboo.specs.detection.threads=6"}Increase the thread pool size based on load factors and need, as advised by Atlassian Support.
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