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[Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 22:26 +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	Currently, we are seeing EC2 instances having the test runner die in a
> heap due to the OOM killer stepping in and killing the test runner since
> it's consuming all of the RAM.
> 
> 	I had a branch fall victim to this over the weekend, and nailed it down
> to lib/lp/soyuz/doc/buildd-slavescanner.txt, line 51, in the call to
> .updateStatus().

Did you document anywhere how you nailed it down to the OOM killer
kicking in on that specific test?  I think others have seen the same
symptom but where unable to find out what was causing it, so it'd be
good to have that documented.

-- 
Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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