Wow!  OK, thanks for the heads up...

Paul Hanchett
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MSX on behalf of Jaguar Land Rover
One World Trade Center, 121 Southwest Salmon Street, 11th Floor, Portland,
Oregon, 97204

Email: [email protected]
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Zhang, Qiang Z <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Hi   Paul,****
>
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>
> It’s not memory leak, gbs local full build is really memory consume task,
> especially for some large project, such as kernel/webkit.****
>
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>
> 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.****
>
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>
> The recommended memory is 8G physcal memory and 8G swap.****
>
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>
> Thanks****
>
> Qiang****
>
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>
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>
> *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?****
>
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>
> 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...****
>
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>
> 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.****
>
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>
> I seem to have gotten past this for now by removing the "--threads=4"
> parameter from my build line.****
>
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>
> Paul****
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>
>
> ****
>
>
> 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****
>
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>
> 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****
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