Hi Vagrant, thanks for filling this bug and thus properly documenting what we had discovered, discussed and lost on IRC already…
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 07:48:42PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > My *hunch* is that build2 and build12 are running a PAE kernel with more > than 8GB of ram, and affected by this kernel bug (introduced in linux > ~4.2, possibly): > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196157 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1698118 indeed! > Reducing the ram of the affected builders to 8GB and having more PAE > builders with lighter workloads might be a workaround that would get > better performance... while still testing 32/64-bit kernel > variation. we lack the diskspace to do so. > Alternately, switching to only amd64 kernels might also fix the issue, > though wouldn't test 32/64-bit kernel variations. indeed. > Running a linux 4.1 kernel from snapshot.debian.org might be another way > to test the issue, even if not running long-term. yeah. another option is to just wait. :/ -- cheers, Holger
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