[Box-Admins] Long running build process on build.squeak.org?

[Frank Shearar]

On 13 January 2013 19:10, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
> Roughly every day or two I login to box3 and check things out and check for
> package updates.  With rare exception the system is quiet, I check for
> updates, apply any found, and move on.  But today I find this (from ps auwx)
>
> jenkins  29126 99.7  2.3 1054380 24552 ?       R    03:20 1000:40
> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/CogVM/tmp/lib/squeak/4.0-2636/squeak
> -vm-sound-null -vm-display-null
> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/SqueakTrunkOnBleedingEdgeCog/target/TrunkImage.image
> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/Sq
>
> As you can see this has used 1000+ minutes of CPU time (which is less than
> the actual running time).  I've not seen this before on the server.  Is it
> perhaps the result of a new build project and expected?  Or an actual
> problem?  Out of caution and since the system is already busy I haven't
> checked for package updates yet today (I think the last time I did so was
> Friday).
>
> Ken

It's probably a process that's brought up a debugger. I'd really like
to adjust the UIManager to do things like dump stack traces to
console, and kill processes in the event of failed tests. I'm happy
for anyone to kill these kinds of jobs. I don't always notice them.

frank