567517 - Random timeouts during OS X 64bit builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

These 2 failures seem to be random timeouts during the build phase:

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox/1274501616.1274511013.14338.gz

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox/1274501616.1274509347.8332.gz

I've seen similar things happening on Linux 64 when my VM box had not enough memory to complete the linking, how much memory do these boxes have?

Comment 1

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Attachment: about mac

it's got 1GB of RAM - so that might have something to do with it.  

We'll look into this further.

Comment 2

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

So - moz2-darwin10-slave[01-29,40-50] are all 1.83 Ghz mac minis with 1 GB RAM with the exception of moz2-darwin10-slave02 which has 2 GB of RAM.

Comment 3

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

1) Do we ever see this buildbot-timeout-during-linking error on moz2-darwin10-slave02?

2) This is caused by buildbot thinking 2 hours with no output must be a hang. Is there a way to increase the timeout, or have link run more verbosely?

Comment 4

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

adding a dependency to bug 562629 which might be what's causing the randomness of this.  since most 64 bit builds are fine with just 1 GB of RAM, the screensaver might be the culprit of memory hogging.

Comment 5

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Closing this now that the dependency is closed. Feel free to re-open if you see this again now that the screensavers are off.