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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23, 2010, at 5:13 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

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> Tim Penhey wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> During my jet-lagged recovery from the Epic I thought it would be a good idea 
>> to send out a statement of where we are on all the various moving parts of the 
>> launchpad code, bazaar integration, codehosting, code imports and various 
>> other parts under out team's remit.  I'm adding notes on things that are 
>> either in progress, or things that I'd like to see RSN (Real Soon Now).
>> 
>> 
>> Bazaar smart server access (a.k.a. bzr+ssh)
>> - I paired with jml at the epic to work on the lp: short name for private 
>> trunk branches.  This is still work in progress and will most likely land in a 
>> number of progressively useful branches.  This will work by making 
>> bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/project actually work and refer to a 
>> branch.
>> - TODO: We still have a staging test machine to test out accessing the branch 
>> store over NFS in order to evaluate a strategy for scaling the number of 
>> concurrent connections to Launchpad using the smart server.  No work is being 
>> done on this at the moment due to other priorities knocking this down the work 
>> queue.
>> - Some smart server processes seem to take a very large amount of RAM, 
>> occasionally driving the codehosting machine into swap (bug 416990 [other 
>> memory related bugs: loggerhead bug 518689, bzr-svn bug 536486])
>> 
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> Do we have the signal 44 handler for bzr+ssh ? (AIUI, you can kill -44
> some processes, and get a memory dump sent to disk.) That would be
> pretty useful for some of this stuff.

Foundations has only added it to the main Launchpad webapp and the librarian, FWIW.

Gary