[Python-Dev] Multigigabyte memory usage in the OpenIndiana Buildbot

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
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> On 06/09/11 06:19, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Is it possible your buildbot is set up to run the bigmem tests?
>> IIRC, those would work correctly with 32 GB, but die a horrible
>> death with only 4 GB available.
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> How can I check that?.
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> I am seen multiple python processes, quite a few, each taking around
> 300MB of RAM.

The test logs include the exact command that is executed:
http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/AMD64%20OpenIndiana%203.x/builds/1731/steps/test/logs/stdio

So it looks like you're just running the standard test resource (which
makes sense, since the bigmem tests would saturate your system with a
single process rather than multiple processes).

The server actually looks it may be in a generally unhappy state,
perhaps due to previous builds that failed without cleaning up after
themselves properly. How many python processes do you see hanging
around?

Regards,
Nick.

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