Wednesday 15 March 2017

Re: pkgstripfiles killed during build

Hi Dann,

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:12:23AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> Dmitry,
> Just a guess - but maybe the build has exhausted the builder's
> memory? If so, you might be able to workaround it by restricting the
> parallel level. I can't offer an explanation as to why it started
> occurring with this upload. Assuming nothing about the builder memory
> config has changed, you might need to compare memory usage profiles w/
> an older build environment to look for red flags.

Looks like you are right.

I managed to reproduce this locally, and I get this:

[15746515.856452] Out of memory: Kill process 2148 (sed) score 553 or sacrifice child
[15746515.857476] Killed process 2148 (sed) total-vm:1180204kB, anon-rss:1167084kB, file-rss:0kB

FWIW, the sed script is 2.6M and 13692 lines, and DEBIAN/md5sums is 3.2M and
29035 lines.

However I do not understand what 'parallel level' you are talking about.
If it is the package build parallel level, then it is unrelated — what gets
killed is a single sed command ("sed -i -f $sedscript DEBIAN/md5sums").

The only workaround I can apply is disabling the PNGs compression by
exporting NO_PNG_PKG_MANGLE=1.

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Dmitry Shachnev