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[Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:14:35 +1300
Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Gavin Panella wrote:
> > I finished being build engineer last week. Here's a summary of the
> > things I did:
> > 
> > * Fixed bug #422433 (Race condition when running two ec2test instances
> >   very close together). This needed to be fixed before working on
> >   making the test suite run in parallel across several machines.
> > 
> > * Investigated a couple of bugs: #419421 (Buildbot: over time memory
> >   usage of the buildbot master process gets unreasonable) and #

Oops, this paragraph was meant to be folded into the #419408 paragraph
later.

...
> > * Prepared a possible fix for bug #419408 (Buildbot: over time,
> >   buildbot creates zombie processes) and bug #419408 (Buildbot: over
> >   time, buildbot creates zombie processes). I think these two are
> >   related; see comment 3 in bug 419408 for an explanation of the
> >   possible culprit.
> 
> Um, you think #419408 and #419408 are related? :)  I think your
> explanation on the bug makes sense (just commented).

That should have been bug #419408 and bug 419421 :)

Thanks for commenting on that bug.

...
> > Have a good stint stub!
> 
> Indeed! Gavin and I are here to share your pain :)

+1

Thanks for the reply!

Gavin.