39344 - mac verification build fails - out of memory

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P1)

Description

[Jon Granrose]

Verification builds failed yesterday and today with the same error:

### Building "FastFreddy:Mozilla Tree:mozilla:js:macbuild:JavaScript.mcp" (Mon 
May 15 12:22:11 2000)
Error   : ### Error: Out of memory ###

### Build failed.

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I'm stumped.

No verification build means no testing, means mac gets even further behind...

Comment 1

[leger]

Putting on [dogfood+] radar.

Comment 2

[J.J. Enser]

I just bumped up CodeWarrior's memory partiton from 28MB to 32MB, but this might 
not be enough. System momery (largest unused block) is now 100 MB which could be 
less than what the IDE needs to compile Javascript.mcp
We should find out soon enough, with the verification cycle currently in 
progress.

If the problem persists, next thing to try is to turn VM on with 300 or 400 MB.

If VM is really not recommended on the verification build machine, we'll have to 
order additional RAM for the G4.

Comment 3

[Jon Granrose]

thanks, jj!  unfortunately, it failed again this morning with the same error.  
Would any of the Mac DIMMs I found a while back be usable in the verification 
system or do we have to order new ones?

cc leaf since I forgot to do so yesterday.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Why did this just start to break? Is there a protocol change in how the machine 
is being run? Is it no longer being rebooted between builds or something?

Comment 5

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

No, we still reboot between builds. I didn't change anything about how the
release builds are done, but JJ might have (though i doubt he did so this weekend).

I turned VM on, i think that's what solved the problem (i was just informed that
CW uses temp memory for most of it's work, which explains why increasing the mem
partition didn't help). When the tree reopens today i'll try throttling down the
mem partition for CW, and see if i can get away with turning off VM for faster
build times.

Comment 6

[J.J. Enser]

jon: unfortunately, all the old dimms we have won't work in a G4. You need 
specific dimms (for b&w G3 or G4, not sure about the exact specs.)

simon: I don't think anything changed since last Friday, when the automation 
still worked. My interpretation is that we progressively need more and more ram 
to do a build, and everything works fine until we reach the limit, and then it 
fails ;-)

We should find out which machine can build optimized with 256 MB of RAM and no 
VM, to see if this config is always failing or not. I don't remember the config 
of retentive (clbr opt tinderbox)

leaf: if you turn VM on, set it to more than 257MB (probably the default)

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

since leaf has a workaround, lowering severity to major.

Comment 8

[Jon Granrose]

this is fixed.  marking fixed to save jj having to dial in from france...

Comment 9

[Jon Granrose]

verified.