Actually there was never a discussion. I just enabled it as a test and then totally forgot about it because it worked surprisingly well.
I believe we won't use more than 1-2 GB. I simply added the remaining 2 as an additional safeguard when something else is launched on the Jenkins node shortly after we have passed the guard. On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 21:38 -0700, Bill Farner wrote: > Possibly rehashing an old discussion - does the build really require > 4 GB? > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Erb, Stephan <Stephan.Erb@blue-yonde > r.com> > wrote: > > > Ah, again a node with insufficient memory. I once added a mechanism > > to > > abort the build early rather than running and eventually failing in > > these > > cases. This was very helpful for the regular reviewbot but is not > > that > > helpful for the normal SCM-triggerd build. > > > > Can anyone think of a better way to handle this case here? > > > > > > On 23.10.17, 22:02, "Apache Jenkins Server" <jenkins@builds.apache. > > org> > > wrote: > > > > See <https://builds.apache.org/job/Aurora/1858/display/ > > redirect?page=changes> > > > > Changes: > > > > [david] Add sorting and filtering controls for TaskList > > > > ------------------------------------------ > > Started by an SCM change > > Started by an SCM change > > [EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables. > > Building remotely on ubuntu-4 (ubuntu trusty) in workspace < > > https://builds.apache.org/job/Aurora/ws/>; > > Wiping out workspace first. > > Cloning the remote Git repository > > Cloning repository https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/auro > > ra.git > > > git init <https://builds.apache.org/job/Aurora/ws/> # > > timeout=10 > > Fetching upstream changes from https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > repos/asf/aurora.git > > > git --version # timeout=10 > > > git fetch --tags --progress https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > repos/asf/aurora.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > > > git config remote.origin.url https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > repos/asf/aurora.git # timeout=10 > > > git config --add remote.origin.fetch > > +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > > # timeout=10 > > > git config remote.origin.url https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > repos/asf/aurora.git # timeout=10 > > Fetching upstream changes from https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > repos/asf/aurora.git > > > git fetch --tags --progress https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ > > repos/asf/aurora.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > > > git rev-parse origin/master^{commit} # timeout=10 > > Checking out Revision 5b91150fd0668c23b178d80516427763764ac2d3 > > (origin/master) > > Commit message: "Add sorting and filtering controls for > > TaskList" > > > git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10 > > > git checkout -f 5b91150fd0668c23b178d80516427763764ac2d3 > > > git rev-list ec640117c273f51e26089cd83ba325be9e8a0e89 # > > timeout=10 > > Cleaning workspace > > > git rev-parse --verify HEAD # timeout=10 > > Resetting working tree > > > git reset --hard # timeout=10 > > > git clean -fdx # timeout=10 > > [Aurora] $ /bin/bash -xe /tmp/jenkins2427407600627764864.sh > > + export HOME=<https://builds.apache.org/job/Aurora/ws/.home> > > + HOME=<https://builds.apache.org/job/Aurora/ws/.home> > > ++ awk '/^MemAvailable:/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo > > + available_mem_k= > > + echo > > > > + threshold_mem_k=4194304 > > + (( threshold_mem_k > available_mem_k )) > > + echo 'Less than 4 GiB memory available. Bailing.' > > Less than 4 GiB memory available. Bailing. > > + exit 1 > > Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure > > Recording test results > > ERROR: Step ?Publish JUnit test result report? failed: No test > > report > > files were found. Configuration error? > > > > > > > >
