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