Ruby CI on Solaris

[Yusuke Endoh]

Dago and Jan,

I understand the situation.
When I often see timeout, I'll contact on you.
Thank you very much!

2019年6月19日(水) 19:58 Jan Holzhueter <jh at opencsw.org>:

> Hi,
>
> Am 19.06.19 um 12:49 schrieb Dagobert Michelsen:
> > Hi Yusuke,
> >
> > Am 18.06.2019 um 01:08 schrieb Yusuke Endoh <mame at ruby-lang.org>:
> >> I'm Yusuke Endoh, who is a developer of Ruby programming language.
> >>
> >> We are using OpenCSW build machines to test Ruby on Solaris 10/11
> x86/SPARC.
> >> We highly appreciate your support.
> >>
> >> Recently, our test suite often fails on OpenCSW due to timeout, ENOSPC,
> or ENOMEM.
> >> A few years ago, it took much less than three hours, but currently it
> sometimes
> >> takes more than ten hours.  This makes it difficult for us to manage
> the CIs.
> >>
> >> In fact, when I log in to the machines (especially unstable10s), they
> are painfully slow.
> >> Are they working properly?  Or do you know if any trouble is happening?
> >>
> >> I'd be happy if you could give me any advice to address this issue.
> >
> > The problem is that the zfs cache in the kernel we are using has a
> memory leak which results
> > in memory getting low after a couple of month. We cannot patch the
> system as the newer
> > kernel also introduces a new libc which makes it harder to build
> packages for older
> > versions of Solaris, so we must stick to it. The solution is reboot the
> machine every couple
> > of month if it gets too slow. The solutio0n is to drop me a note when
> the responsetimes
> > become unacceptable, sorry :-/
> >
> > I am currently on vacation with limited connectivity.
> > @Jan: Can you please reboot the 5220 sometime?
> >
> >
> >
>
> Will put on an my list for tomorrow.
>
> Greetings
> Jan
>
>
>
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