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Comment 31 for bug 416990

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 416990] Re: Memory usage of codehosting processes is excessive

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Michael Hudson wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> I believe mwhudson has started working on the bug asking for a memory
>> limit on bzr processes. When that lands we should start seeing
>> failures if things do get into a bloated state, and hopefully the
>> failure will include some meaningful traceback.
>
> I doubt the approach I've taken -- setrlimit -- will result in
> tracebacks, I think it will be termination with rather more prejudice
> than that. But maybe, we'll see.
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>

Could you do something silly like spawn a thread at startup that polls
vmstat and issues SIGINT to the running process if it exceeds a soft
threshold, and then have a hard threshold above that?

John
=:->

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