On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:58:43PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2012 01:27:01 Marc Espie wrote: > > Thanks to Ariane's changes, we can now monitor maxrss thru compiles. > > > > Here is a full list of a bulk build on amd64, ordered by size. > > > > (warning, very long post) > > > > note that the number for libreoffice might be a bit small, because I ran > > out of diskspace and rebuilt it later, but most of the rest is fairly > > interesting. > > > > This is very cheap to compute, this just requires an extra wrapper-process > > around make to compute those numbers. > > Does this mean it's going to be at least somewhat dynamic and the list that > you attached will be regenerated once in a while?
Yeah, the only issue so far is that the make-wrapper process is C code, so it needs to be compiled and deployed on every host, but then managing this full rss list just requires similar techniques to the persistent engine database under build-stats.
