Yep, it seems to mostly be xz that is running out of memory. (All recent builds that I sampled, but not all builds through all time.) Thanks for pointing it out!
I can revert the change. On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:46 AM Cheng Shao <cheng.s...@tweag.io> wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > This may be an unintended fallout of !8940. Would you try starting an > i386 pipeline with it reversed to see if it solves the issue, in which > case we should revert or fix it in master? > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 9:58 AM Bryan Richter via ghc-devs > <ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > For the past week or so, nightly-i386-linux-deb9-validate has been > failing consistently. > > > > They show up on the failure dashboard because the logs contain the > phrase "Cannot allocate memory". > > > > I haven't looked yet to see if they always fail in the same place, but > I'll do that soon. The first example I looked at, however, has the line > "xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory", so it's not GHC (alone) causing the > problem. > > > > As a consequence of showing up on the dashboard, the jobs get restarted. > Since they fail consistently, they keep getting restarted. Since the jobs > keep getting restarted, the pipelines stay alive. When I checked just now, > there were 8 nightly runs still running. :) Thus I'm going to cancel the > still-running nightly-i386-linux-deb9-validate jobs and let the pipelines > die in peace. You can still find all examples of failed jobs on the > dashboard: > > > > > https://grafana.gitlab.haskell.org/d/167r9v6nk/ci-spurious-failures?orgId=2&from=now-90d&to=now&refresh=5m&var-types=cannot_allocate > > > > To prevent future problems, it would be good if someone could help me > look into this. Otherwise I'll just disable the job. :( > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > ghc-devs@haskell.org > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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