[LLVMdev] Plans for the Apple supported Darwin buildbot cluster

[Chris Matthews]

We have found that you have to bump up the memory that java can use on the slaves for large jobs, but no problems otherwise (so far).

> On Aug 15, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Roelofs <jonathan at codesourcery.com> wrote:
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> On 8/14/14, 5:25 AM, Renato Golin wrote:
>> On 14 August 2014 11:26, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> So you don't want to send it to the standard output.  The things that want to parse it expect a file in the filesystem.  So if you want the verbose build to be sticking it in a well-known file then I don't have strong objections, but it seems to be conflating two things.  We run lit in -q mode in Jenkins, because we don't want big console logs duplicating the information in the XML.
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>> I could be wrong, but I thought that buildbots already stored the
>> standard output into a file for parsing, so Jenkins would possibly do
>> the same? It seems not.
> I've observed that Jenkins chokes horribly on test-suites that print a lot to standard output (without redirecting to a file). When it's egregiously bad, you can even crash Jenkins doing it.
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> It's best for them not to print so much in order to avoid this issue, and make the logs easier to be human read.
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> Cheers,
> Jon
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>> Since you're requesting an XML output (same as when requesting verbose
>> textual output), you will get a lot of output, so redirecting stdout
>> to a file on the integration level seems like the most sensible
>> solution on the tool level.
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>> cheers,
>> --renato
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