Re: Re: [farm-report] Failed to build python-SunOS-5.8-sun4d-fafner

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:39:24AM +0200, Per Cederqvist wrote:
> <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Build test failed.
> > --
> > [...]
> > find ../python/dist/src/Lib -name '*.py[co]' -print | xargs rm -f
> > ./python -E -tt ../python/dist/src/Lib/test/regrtest.py -l
> > sh: cannot fork: no swap space
> > sh: cannot fork: no swap space
> > make: *** [test] Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> > ./python -E -tt ../python/dist/src/Lib/test/regrtest.py -l
> > make: *** [test] Bus Error (core dumped)
> 
> Something is very wrong with the sfarmer scripts.  There are currently
> 106 processes owned by sfarmer running on fafner, many of them running
> identical commands.  There are 21 each of the following four commands:
> 
>    ./python -E -tt ../python/dist/src/Lib/test/regrtest.py -l
>    /bin/sh ./buildit.sh
>    make test
>    sh -c       (PATH=/sw/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ccs/bin; export PATH; cd $HO
> 
> (The last command is probably truncated by ps).
> 
> A new test run should never be started before the previous test run
> has finished.  You could send a warning if a test run doesn't finish
> when expected.
> 
> I will start to kill a few of the processes now to reclaim some memory
> on fafner, but will leave a few of them for your debugging.

This is a known problem. Something in the tests bogs down on sunos
5.8 (at least on proton and fafner).

I try to keep these from doing too much harm by ulimit, but I have not
found a viable way of deciding when the build script has executed long
enough. Any suggestions would be very welcome. buildit.sh, line 146:

  (make $target 9>&1 1>&2 2>&9 | tee $makeerrlog) > $makelog 2>&1

When some predetermined time has passed, if still on this line,
all children should be killed.

Hmm. Maybe I should just put a stamp file somewhere, to check for
before we start building targets in a particular module. If that file
is still present at next execution, we report that build got stuck?
-- 
Anders "Quest" Qvist

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