Re: [farm-report] Daily Snake Farm report

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:00:55AM -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> 
> >All these machines get the same build result; the builder gets
> >OOM-killed. They are all "pure" 64-bit machines and they all run
> >various versions of Linux. And while moghedien (and asmodean, which
> >couldn't make it today) are short on RAM, the Roxen machines have
> >one Gbyte each. It would seem something makes the tests bloat out
> >of all proportion.
> 
> I'm doing some 64-bit work... I don't have reasonable net access
> but I have an ia64 machine here that I'm doing a specialized
> build of Python on.  Is there anyway I could help (as in reproduce
> the environment and see what's going on)?

Can you try to get the latest CVS and do make test? See what happens
to it. I suspect the test_import, but have no evidence. Be careful if
you have no OOM-killer.

> The Linux ia64 machines are depressingly old, at not-quite-2.4.0
> and 2.4.3, but I guess we can't force a contributor to upgrade
> their machines.

We can always ask them, but since the 2.2 Alpha (asmodean) get the
same problem, I doubt if kernel version is the problem.
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Anders "Quest" Qvist

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