Wow! OK, thanks for the heads up...
Paul Hanchett ------------------- Infotainment Engineer MSX on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover One World Trade Center, 121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor, Portland, Oregon, 97204 Email: [email protected] ------------------- Business Details: Jaguar Land Rover Limited Registered Office: Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF Registered in England No: 1672070 On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Zhang, Qiang Z <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Paul,**** > > ** ** > > It’s not memory leak, gbs local full build is really memory consume task, > especially for some large project, such as kernel/webkit.**** > > ** ** > > There’re some discussion before, for webkit build at least 8G (4G memory+ > 4G swap) needed, so if you have memory less than 8G, you may got “OOM” > error even you just build one webkit package.**** > > **** > > Actually, you will get the same error by using rpmbuild instead of gbs. I > remember some engineers suggest to split webkit into several small > packages, not sure the result now.**** > > ** ** > > The recommended memory is 8G physcal memory and 8G swap.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > > Qiang**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Hanchett, Paul > *Sent:* Friday, September 06, 2013 11:44 PM > *To:* Ding, Jian-feng > *Cc:* Kenneth Smith; [email protected]; Steven Maurer > *Subject:* Re: [Tizen General] Does GBS leak memory?**** > > ** ** > > Well, I definitely don't have 6GB to give on my current dev machine-- > limited to 2GB for my VM before the (Windows) host becomes starved for > memory. I'm told my *real* dev machine is "in the mail". ;-)**** > > ** ** > > This list won't let me post an image, but the gbs job has exited and top > shows a lot of memory still consumed (1.9GB real memory and 1GB swap on a > machine with 2GB main and 1GB swap disk). The particular image I have > shows cc1 still running, but I've seen where everything has exited and it > still looks like large amounts of memory are consumed (~1.7GB!). I can > only account for maybe half that as Ubuntu...**** > > ** ** > > The other thing that may be significant is that it only seems to happen > when it fails because of out of memory (I have seen a message about failed > to fork...). Doesn't happen on a "normal" error.**** > > ** ** > > I seem to have gotten past this for now by removing the "--threads=4" > parameter from my build line.**** > > ** ** > > Paul**** > > ** ** > > > **** > > > Paul Hanchett > ------------------- > Infotainment Engineer > MSX on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover > One World Trade Center, 121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor, Portland, > Oregon, 97204 > > Email: [email protected] > ------------------- > > Business Details: > Jaguar Land Rover Limited > Registered Office: Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF **** > > Registered in England No: 1672070**** > > ** ** > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Jian-feng Ding <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Hi, Paul > > Actually, the gbs bulid task is quite a memory consuming process, as we all > know. So in our testing machines, for the local full build, we usually need > more than 6GB physical memory, especially for several huge projects, like > wrt. > > But the mem leaking, I don't think it will exist. gbs will call some perl > scripts inside, as separated child-processes, which will not leave memory > unreleased as I understand. > > Our developers will check it more, and will provide more information if > found > sth. new. > > thanks > - jf.ding**** > > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 11:45:16AM -0400, Hanchett, Paul wrote: > > I just attempted a gbs build which ran for hours, fairly successfully, > > until it terminated with an "out of memory error". > > > > Top shows 2GB of memory available and around 1.7GB in use (and some > amount > > of swap that I didn't note) even with all windows and processes closed > > except for the shell running top. > > > > Looking at memory usage doesn't show all that much allocated to any > single > > process. > > > > Rebooting the VM and running top shows ~783MB in use and no swap. (I > find > > even that much sort of surprising; ubuntu unity must not be all that > > small...) > > > > Am I just misreading the output of top, or is there really a memory leak? > > > > TIA for any help! > > > > Paul > > > > Paul Hanchett > > ------------------- > > Infotainment Engineer > > MSX on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover > > One World Trade Center, 121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor, > Portland, > > Oregon, 97204 > > > > Email: [email protected] > > ------------------- > > > > Business Details: > > Jaguar Land Rover Limited > > Registered Office: Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry CV3 4LF > > Registered in England No: 1672070**** > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general**** > > ** ** >
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