On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:03 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Once upon a time Wednesday 15 August 2007, Mike McGrath wrote: > > We've recently started taking a closer look at the builders and as a > > result we've been getting many notifications. As a baseline, the > > builders need some work. One thing we've been getting alerted of is > > memory usage, in particular less than 10% swap free. > > > > We have a couple of options. > > > > 1) stop monitoring swap on the builders > > 2) reduce resolution on the builders (check less often and require more > > failures in a row before notification, right now is 3 failures in a row > > results in a notification) > > 3) increase swap (presently about 1G / core so between 2G and 8G of swap > > on the boxes) [snip] > Some builders could really do with some more ram. but in the mean time > perhaps up swap to 1.5g/core I'd say a combination of 2 and 3 is going to get the best results of improving reliability and reducing false positives Jeremy
