[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot through stacktrace during SVNPoller

[Fulvio Cervone]

Yeah, in your case 4 Gb were not that much.

I have SVN on a different machine, so I don't get impacted by it.

-f

On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:54 PM, William Deegan wrote:

> Fulvio,
> 
> The machine is running buildbot + svn + a few nx hosts.
> The startup in question doesn't have a lot of hardware and will likely be migrating everything but svn off of that machine in the near term.
> It's centos 5.5 64 bit linux.
> 
> Buildbot's eating ~1GB
> SVN+ Subversion edge (activestate) eating another 1GB
> So that doesn't leave a whole lot for the rest.
> 16GB should be sufficient.
> 
> -Bill
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Fulvio Cervone wrote:
> 
>> Glad that it helped.
>> 
>> Just as suggestion, a machine running buildbot should run just the OS and buildbot; nothing else (if you have a windows machine probably the firewall and the antivirus are also suggested).
>> 
>> I run a master with 2 Gb and a slave with 4 Gb and rarely have memory problems; try to keep the system resource monitor up to see what is sucking memory and just close it (i bet is the web browser; it can eat easily a GB or 2).
>> 
>> If you are on mac or linux/unix you can check with ps aux to see what is going on with your system; 4 GB should be pretty much a good amount just for buildbot :)
>> 
>> -f
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:48 PM, William Deegan wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks all.
>>> We're increasing memory from an anemic 4GB to 16GB tonight.
>>> Hopefully that will resolve the issue.
>>> If not.. I'll be back.. :)
>>> 
>>> -Bill
>>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 11:50 PM, P. Christeas wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tuesday 14 June 2011, William Deegan wrote:
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Found this while investigating why buildbot skipped a specific checkin.
>>>>> Any idea what might've caused this?
>>>> 
>>>>> 390, in _fork self.pid = os.fork()
>>>>> exceptions.OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Your machine is out of resources.. I guess one way would be to keep a console 
>>>> open and run sth. like 'top' to see what's going on at the time of OOM. 
>>>> Until then, anything else would be just a wild guess. Your OOM may be 
>>>> triggered by any other process, rather than buildbot itself.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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