[Buildbot-devel] FileDownload step never finishes

[Shaun McDonald]

On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:31, Oliver Rusterholz wrote:

> John Bäckstrand <sandos at ...> writes:
>
>>
>> Brian Warner wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know what the problem is likely to be?
>>>
>>> Not offhand, but I know that FileDownload/upload has a control- 
>>> flow problem
>>> when the number of segments it sends gets large, something is  
>>> screwed up that
>>> causes each segment to get a new stack frame, until you can hit
>>> "RuntimeError: maximum recusion depth exceeded" exceptions.
>>
>> I tried using a FileUpload a week or two ago, but the step never
>> completed. File was 25+MB. I then decided that I should probably  
>> not use
>> buildbot for "managing" artefacts anyway, so I just gave up on  
>> FileUpload.
>
> I had the same problem while uploading files bigger than 100MB but  
> solved it
> with specifying "blocksize=640*1024" in the buildstep. It has to be  
> exactly
> 640*1024, everything else didn't work.
>
I have this specified, but Solaris still doesn't like it. We are  
wondering if it is a router problem.

Shaun