[Box-Admins] RE: [squeak-dev] http://build.squeak.org/ down?

[Frank Shearar]

On 18 October 2014 21:41, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 04:03:43PM +0100, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> On 17 October 2014 03:35, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:18:22AM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> >> I guess this belongs more to the box-admins list, so I moved it here.
>> >> I killed 45 runaway processes, and found that jenkins is down.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >The VM processes are apt to leak for reasons unknown: Maybe Jenkins can't
>> >> >track the shell games I have to try play with Squeak. Suggestions for
>> >> >improvement actively sought.
>> >>
>> >> I think it would be worth restarting jenkins, but disabling all but one of
>> >> these VM-related processes until this is fixed.
>> >> It would help if you could give us some pointers about what is wrong, and
>> >> where to start looking around.
>> >>
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > I restarted Jenkins so the build.squeak.org site will be active, but we really
>> > need to clean this up.
>> >
>> > Frank, do you agree with Levente's suggestion to disable projects until the
>> > issue is resolved?
>>
>> I'm not in a position to do much about things until week after next:
>> personal emergency. Do whatever you think is appropriate to mitigate
>> the problem.
>
> All the best to you Frank, I will try to keep a closer eye on it while
> you are away.

Thanks very much, David.

> For now I have just disabled the ExternalPackages project. I had to kill
> a bunch of disconnected Squeak VMs and restart Jenkins, but I noticed that
> all of those VMs appeared to be associated with the ExternalPackages
> workspace. I'll keep all the others enabled for now, and see if the problem
> comes back.

Oh, that's interesting! Only ExternalPackages, and not any of the
ExternalPackage-Foo builds like ExternalPackage-Xtream,
ExternalPackage-Control?

ExternalPackages tests way too much, and takes way too long, and I'd
planned on eventually replacing it completely with the
ExternalPackage-Foo builds. (Not sure yet how to do that across Squeak
versions...)

frank

> Dave
>