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Re: [Monotone-devel] BSD Buildbots
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] BSD Buildbots |
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Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:54:49 -0500 |
On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Lapo Luchini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > That test shouldn't use anything like 256MB of memory - in fact,
> > massif claims it never gets above 10MB (see attached graph).
>
> Indeed "time -l" confirms that (and AFAIK that reads kernel data about
> actual max memory used, it's not an approximation).
Good to know.
> About the hypotetic "debug mode"... I don't know nothing about that,
> i.e. if something of that sort is in place it's not intentional (but I
> really know nothing about the python/twistd part of the bot).
malloc(3) lists a bunch of debugging options.[1] I don't see anything
that sounds like it would cause this effect, but does /etc/malloc.conf
exist on the problem system? Is MALLOC_OPTIONS set in the
environment?
zw
[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=malloc&apropos=0&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE&format=html