> On Jul 20, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 20 July 2016 at 17:51, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com 
> <mailto:gl...@twistedmatrix.com>> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 20, 2016, at 6:31 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro 
>> <mailto:a...@roiban.ro>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 18 July 2016 at 19:04, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jamesbroadh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> On 17 July 2016 at 07:21, Amber Brown <hawk...@atleastfornow.net 
>> <mailto:hawk...@atleastfornow.net>> wrote:
>> It's OOMing  (...)
>> 
>> 
>> Have you considered something like monit[1] to detect & restart in cases 
>> like this?  
>> 
>> 
>> This might help, but will not help up understand what we are doing wrong :)
>> 
>> After disabling the github webhooks, the buildbot look stable... so we might 
>> have a clue about what goes wrong.
>> 
>> Right now I don't have time to look into this issue, so github hooks are 
>> disabled for now from the GitHub UI.
> 
> Can someone who's had a direct look at the OOMing process (adi? amber?) 
> report this upstream?  It's a real pity that we won't get github statuses for 
> buildbot builds any more; that was a huge step in the right direction.
> 
> 
> I don't know how to grasp this.
> By the time I was observing the issue, the buildbot process was already dead.

Yeah, these types of issues are tricky to debug.  Thanks for looking into it 
nonetheless; I was hoping you knew more, but if you don't, nothing to be done.

> I have recently discovered the Rackspace monitoring capabilities for VM... 
> and set up a memory notification... not sure who will receive the alerts.

I'll make sure that the relevant people are on the monitoring list.

> I have re-enable to GitHub hooks and will start taking a closer look at the 
> buildmaster process.... but maybe 2GB is just not enough for a buildmaster.

Thanks.

> I have triggered the creation of an image for the current buildbot machine 
> and will consider upgrading the buildbot to 4GB of memory to see if we still 
> hit the ceiling.

> For my project I have a similar buildmaster based on number of builders and 
> slaves (without github hooks and without linter factories) and in 2 weeks of 
> uptime the virtual memory usage is 1.5GB
> .... so mabybe 2GB is just not enough for buildbot.

Bummer.  It does seem like that's quite likely.

-glyph
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