Re: [PATCH] bitbake: Add pyinotify to lib/

[Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>]

On 01/20/2015 04:55 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 10:25 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
>> Hello RP,
>>
>> I've got several errors like the following when the system's load is high,
>> not sure whether related to pyinotify.
>>
>> for example, when do_configure:
>> sh: 0: Cannot fork
>>
>> when do_package or others:
>> Exception: OSError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> We've seen this on the autobuilders too. I don't think this should be
> from the pyinotify changes since the worker process is spawned
> separately and shouldn't hold watches. Its more likely with the kernel
> changes, we created more contention with the performance improvements
> and pushed things "over the edge" to the point where configurations
> which used to work, are now too contented.
>
> Can we install monitoring on these systems and figure out which
> resources are unavailable?

After more thoughts, maybe because of the "max open files" or
"max user processes", I will try to modify them to see what will happen
the day after tomorrow (I can't modify them today or tomorrow).

// Robert

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> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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