Re: Too many pythons in poudriere

From: Mark Millard via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:11:59 UTC

On 2021-Jul-7, at 19:04, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: bob prohaska <fbsd_at_www.zefox.net> wrote on
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 14:53:20 -0700 :
> 
>> In trying to compile www/chromium under poudriere on a Pi3 there
>> comes a point when five python2.7 sessions totaling more than 2 GB
>> in size are running at once.

I should have orignially noted right here that such is
because of the use of: ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes

You need to avoid that for the www/chromium build.

>> Obviously, swap is swamped and the Pi3
>> is running at a crawl. It hasn't givem up, however.
>> 
>> Poudriere was started with -J 2 and make is limited to 2 jobs. 
>> Is there an analogous limit to how many pythons are loosed at
>> once? It looks like there's only one builder, so it isn't
>> obvious that -J 1 would help; I'll try it if this job stops
>> prematurely.
> 
> It will not help. There were no competing build jobs.
> 
>> Progress, such as it is, can be seen at
>> 
>> http://www.zefox.org/~bob/poudriere/data/logs/bulk/main-default/2021-07-05_14h06m26s/build.html
> 
> By the time I looked it had run out of swap space:
> 
> Swapinfo 100.00%
> 
> and had stopped for build/timeout after 50:33:26 .
> 
> For reference, including "swap_pager: out of swap space"
> and "swp_pager_getswapspace(1): failed":
> 
> QUOTE
> 
> Wed Jul  7 15:20:34 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1831744    11456    99%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1832328    10872    99%
> Total             3686400  3664072    22328    99%
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:20:46 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1838356     4844   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1838928     4272   100%
> Total             3686400  3677284     9116   100%
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:20:56 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1841260     1940   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1841836     1364   100%
> Total             3686400  3683096     3304   100%
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:21:08 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843000      200   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843124       76   100%
> Total             3686400  3686124      276   100%
> . . .
> Jul  7 15:20:58 www kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:21:20 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843128       72   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843140       60   100%
> Total             3686400  3686268      132   100%
> . . .
> Jul  7 15:20:58 www kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:21:30 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843160       40   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843116       84   100%
> Total             3686400  3686276      124   100%
> . . .
> Jul  7 15:20:58 www kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:21:45 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843192        8   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843192        8   100%
> Total             3686400  3686384       16   100%
> Jul  7 15:20:58 www kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> Jul  7 15:21:33 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:22:05 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843192        8   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843192        8   100%
> Total             3686400  3686384       16   100%
> Jul  7 15:20:58 www kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> Jul  7 15:21:33 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:48:46 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843192        8   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843192        8   100%
> Total             3686400  3686384       16   100%
> Jul  7 15:21:33 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> Jul  7 15:48:44 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(1): failed
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:57:01 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843192        8   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843192        8   100%
> Total             3686400  3686384       16   100%
> Jul  7 15:21:33 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> Jul  7 15:48:44 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(1): failed
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 15:57:21 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843192        8   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843192        8   100%
> Total             3686400  3686384       16   100%
> Jul  7 15:21:33 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> Jul  7 15:48:44 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(1): failed
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 16:31:52 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200  1843192        8   100%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200  1843192        8   100%
> Total             3686400  3686384       16   100%
> Jul  7 15:48:44 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(1): failed
> Jul  7 16:13:16 www kernel: swp_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> . . .
> Wed Jul  7 17:47:11 PDT 2021
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200    32696  1810504     2%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200    33572  1809628     2%
> Total             3686400    66268  3620132     2%
> 
> END QUOTE
> 
> It looks like for the configuration as it is, the
> bulk build needs to build such that the load
> average stays near 1 or less, avoiding near 2 or
> more: no use of ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes during the bulk
> build is one way to do that.
> 
> In http://www.zefox.org/~bob/poudriere.conf (modified
> for illustration):
> 
> # By default MAKE_JOBS is disabled to allow only one process per cpu
> # Use the following to allow it anyway
> #ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes
> # List of packages that will always be allowed to use MAKE_JOBS
> # regardless of ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS. This is useful for allowing ports
> # which holdup the rest of the queue to build more quickly.
> #ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS_PACKAGES="pkg ccache py*"
> 
> I'll also note that:
> 
> http://www.zefox.org/~bob/poudriere.d/make.conf
> 
> should not ever have the "ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes" that
> is does: it is the wrong symbol for that kind of
> context. poudriere converts ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS to something
> else used in make.
> 
> QUOTE (not modified for illustration)
> ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes
> MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=2
> #.if ${.CURDIR:M*www/chromium}
> #MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2
> #.endif
> #.if ${.CURDIR:M*databases/sqlite3}
> #MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2
> #.endif
> #.if ${.CURDIR:M*www/firefox}
> #MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2
> #.endif
> END QUOTE
> 
> 
>> 
>> The last time www/chromium was compiled (using make) on this machine 
>> I don't remember seeing such a python jam. If it happened at all the 
>> Pi3 worked through it faster than presently. 
> 
> Which was the old make: -j1 vs. -j2 vs. -j3 vs. -j4 ?
> 
> The ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes use is like -j4 in your 4 core
> context. Lack of ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes is like -j1 .
> 
> The -jN is for the number of make processes allowed to be
> active per builder, including when there is only one builder.
> 
> The ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes meant that there was likely a massive
> amount of paging activity that was taking up much of the
> time. That would still have been true with a much lager
> swap space: it is a type of context where Lack of
> ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS=yes may well take notably less time to
> finish.



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