PyPy buildbot times out

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-5-19 07:50 , Sean Farley wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On May 18, 2013, at 12:34, Sean Farley wrote:
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>>> I have a patch to fix pypy Using The Right Compiler but noticed that the buildbot was failing with a timeout error. Is there any way to increase the timeout for pypy?

No, the timeout value is global. I don't think we want to wait any
longer for builds that are actually stuck to be killed.

>> How long is it taking? Why is it timing out? Is it actually compiling when it times out, or is it stuck somewhere? When I update the php port the buildbot takes hours to build, but doesn't time out.
> 
> Hmm, that's a good point. It seems that the job is killed after 1200
> of no output. I'll have to try to build this on my laptop and see.

It's timing out in the C generation or the final link step after
compiling the C. I suspect that the slaves may be thrashing, as the
build takes a lot of memory. I don't think it ever took anywhere near 20
minutes between printing lines when I built locally (with 8 GB of RAM).

If it's possible to allocate more memory to the slave VMs, that might help.

- Josh