Comment 5 for bug 677069

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 677069] Re: twistd executive can be paged out by memory-heavy builds leading to timeouts and the build being killed

On Wed Jan 11 20:12:57 2012, Robert Collins wrote:
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - The twistd executive manager process should never get paged out
> + twistd executive can be paged out by memory-heavy builds leading to timeouts and the build being killed
>

This is getting more important to fix. To work around the problem that
exists mostly on arm buildds the buildd-manager's (global) timeout is
now set to be days. This is suboptimal when we need to clear up stuck
buildds of other architectures!