Excessive memory usage by scripts causes swapping
Bug #961347 reported by
Curtis Hovey
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
loganberry had a swap alert caused by two processes (product-
lifeless proposed that cron scripts could use ulimt to ensure that rogue processes cannot use more memory than we believe they should use. Lp's scripts are setup in lp:lp-production-crontabs which contains a crontab for each machine. The crontabs define global variables to execute the scripts. A new var might be added to ensure no process exceeds safe limits.
A comprehensive fix might also address the specific issues reported in bug #327423 and bug #702255
| tags: | added: performance product-release-finder regression |
Revision history for this message
| Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | removed: product-release-finder regression |
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