Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:03 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Wednesday 15 August 2007, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
>> We've recently started taking a closer look at the builders and as a
>> result we've been getting many notifications. As a baseline, the
>> builders need some work. One thing we've been getting alerted of is
>> memory usage, in particular less than 10% swap free.
>>
>> We have a couple of options.
>>
>> 1) stop monitoring swap on the builders
>> 2) reduce resolution on the builders (check less often and require more
>> failures in a row before notification, right now is 3 failures in a row
>> results in a notification)
>> 3) increase swap (presently about 1G / core so between 2G and 8G of swap
>> on the boxes)
>>
[snip]
> Some builders could really do with some more ram. but in the mean time
> perhaps up swap to 1.5g/core
>
I'd say a combination of 2 and 3 is going to get the best results of
improving reliability and reducing false positives
Created a ticket:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/124
-Mike