[Monotone-devel] Re: Buildslaves make it obvious what monotone is developped on ; -)

[Lapo Luchini]

Richard Levitte wrote:
> lapo> (fortunately, I would not have been very fond of idea limiting
> lapo> to MORE than 256MB of RAM...)
> 
> OK, an interesting thing would be to measure how much process memory
> the tests need.  That's something I've never bothered with before, so
> if someone has an idea on how to do that, and even better, how to do
> that with a buildbot, that could be fun to try.

What I'm using in both my buildbots is "softlimit -d256000000" using
softlimit from DJB's daemontools <http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html>.

It can limit quite a few things on processes.

    Lapo

PS: yup, that's 256MB, not 256MiB :P