The mystery of stuck inactive msbuild.exe processes, locked Stylecop.dll, Nuget AccessViolationException and CI builds clashing with each other

Question

Observations:

• On our Jenkins build server, we were seeing lots of msbuild.exe processes (~100) hanging around after job completion with around 20mb memory u

Answer 1

I've had the same issue for a while, builds were taking over 6 minutes to finish after some digging I found our it's node reuse fault so adding /m:4 /nr:false fixing my issue immediately