We use the Jenkins AWS plugin to launch EC2s (“Clouds”) on-demand to run automation tests. These have an idle timeout of 5 minutes and are correctly terminated automatically after 5 minutes of idle time… until I added a “Permanent Agent”. i.e. Nodes → New Node. Type=Permanent Agent.
Now, all our other agents are no longer terminating after the 5 minute idle time. They pretty much last forever until I manually terminate one of them, at which time, they will ALL terminate within a few seconds in this big cascade effect.
Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known issue that temporary and permanent agents cannot play together?
Thanks.
Jenkins v2.491
This issue appears to have resolved itself. I updated all plugins and restarted the service. Sorry for the false alarm. I did not see a way to delete this post.