Hi Community, I have a question about the prefect agents. If I have a prefect agent running on a machine can it run concurrent flows or does prefect need to have 2 agents running simultaneously to have concurrent flows running?
j
Jim Crist-Harif
12/07/2020, 6:01 PM
One agent can kick off multiple concurrent flows
r
Richard Hughes
12/07/2020, 6:02 PM
okay, I think this might solve my problem with the issue I opened last Friday
Regarding that issue, we've identified the (rare) race condition that could lead to that issue, and should have a fix incoming. Prefect Cloud shouldn't have issues with multiple identical agents running (barring the bug you found), but there also isn't really a need for multiple identical agents.
r
Richard Hughes
12/07/2020, 6:12 PM
okay, this makes sense, thanks for finding this issue, and I will turn off the 2nd agents for each one of projects I am running since it is not required.