On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Nirnimesh <nirnim...@chromium.org> wrote:

> +chromium-dev. This is mac only.
> (resending from right id this time)
>
> Trung, Mark: I did see ps zombies, but they were from my long-standing
> chrome, not from chromebot. I'm on 10.5.8.
> Kris: I'm pretty sure chromebot worked fine on the 249 branch, at least
> until 2 weeks ago.
> TVL: Time Machine is off
> and /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist is modest. I run
> chromebot with each chrome instance running with its own profile dir.
>

Where are the profile dirs going on disk?  Time machine doesn't have to be
on, we can add things to this file incase it is turned on.


> John: output of launchctl bslist over time attached. It goes from 196 to a
> high of 244. Is this significant considering there are 20 instances of
> chrome running? This number does however go down when chromebot kills some
> chrome processes and then climbs back again when new instances are fired.
>
> I did notice one other interesting thing related to ps. As long as
> chromebot runs, there were a number of "stuck" (though not zombies) ps
> processes. Any additional ps commands in terminal gets stuck too.
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Viet-trung Luu <v...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> There may be several (possibly related) problems.
>>
>> I'm definitely seeing zombie ps-es on 249.43 (the released beta). What
>> Nirnimesh said about not being able to fork processes (until Chrome
>> gets killed) could be caused by zombies.
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing zombies?
>>
>> - Trung
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Van Lenten <thoma...@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Kris Rambish <kr...@google.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> A few questions:
>> >>   - Does this happen with the 249 (Beta) branch?
>> >>   - Do we know when this has gotten worse on TOT?
>> >>     + If we don't, does it make sense to fire up 15 minis with
>> different
>> >> builds and see where it breaks/gets worse?
>> >
>> > Look at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist, how big is it?
>> > When you run chromebot, what do you use for profile dirs?
>> > TVL
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Kris
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Viet-trung Luu <v...@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> We're (or at least I am) seeing ps zombies (which I thought had been
>> >>> resolved). See
>> >>> <http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28547#c29>
>> >>> (I see it on 10.5.8 also).
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone who has the cycles-- please feel free to investigate....
>> >>>
>> >>> - Trung
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:08 AM, John Grabowski <j...@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> > I agree; this sounds a lot like the Avi bug (worked around by trung
>> on
>> >>> > http://crbug.com/28547).
>> >>> > Nirnimesh: you can test this by doing a "launchctl bslist | wc -l"
>> and
>> >>> > see
>> >>> > if that number keeps rising to infinity (at which point the system
>> >>> > chokes).
>> >>> > jrg
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Thomas Van Lenten
>> >>> > <thoma...@google.com>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> I think there is a fix/hack on trunk for the issue Avi had brought
>> up.
>> >>> >>  Are they really stuck, or are they just really slow to respond?
>> This
>> >>> >> could
>> >>> >> be the issue we are seeing with browser_tests and some of the perf
>> >>> >> tests
>> >>> >> where things are getting slower with time.
>> >>> >> What really confuses me here, is the reference build doesn't show
>> this
>> >>> >> problem, and it's been updated to be a build from within the range
>> >>> >> that
>> >>> >> started showing this slowdown with time...
>> >>> >> TVL
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Nirnimesh <nirnim...@google.com>
>> >>> >> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Here is what happens when running chromebot on builds from the
>> trunk
>> >>> >>> for
>> >>> >>> some time now:
>> >>> >>> Chromebot fires off 20 instances of Chrome. It starts off fine but
>> >>> >>> within
>> >>> >>> a few minutes you cannot do anything on the machine and chrome too
>> >>> >>> appears
>> >>> >>> to be hung (until it gets killed by chromebot). Until then you
>> cannot
>> >>> >>> fork
>> >>> >>> any processes, cannot launch any app, nothing. Is this similar to
>> the
>> >>> >>> other
>> >>> >>> bug in beta about running out of resources (which avi brought up),
>> or
>> >>> >>> does
>> >>> >>> this sound different?
>> >>> >>> Thanks
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> --
>> >>> >>> ../NiR
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> ../NiR
>

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