Comments on Regular Expressions: Dog Food Not Enough for CI Servers

Hey Mark,Thanks for the tip! I'll have to poke at...

2007-10-21T17:33:00.000-07:00

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the tip! I'll have to poke at it on Monday. Bamboo has been doing us well, so thanks for the work you've been putting into it!

You're right, you'd likely need something semi-OS specific for catching runaways. If you knew the PID of the child process, you may be able to dig around /proc to find some of those details out.

Thanks for the great ideas. We'll definitely try t...

2007-10-21T16:36:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the great ideas. We'll definitely try to incorporate some of that into our testing (1 + 4, probably has more priority)

For the moment there is a plugin that will warn you of low disk space.

3 could be tricky though. Short of running some native code,

Good point. Sounds like this is better served as a...

2007-10-20T13:33:00.000-07:00

Good point. Sounds like this is better served as a spec with a couple implementations to serve as examples..

It's probably worth doing this with a few differen...

2007-10-18T00:35:00.000-07:00

It's probably worth doing this with a few different build tools. For example, maven's "out of memory" condition involves a random OOME in the JVM maven runs in; a native build tool would probably end up tripping the kernel OOM killer instead. I'd say at least one java tool, one native tool, and one interpreted tool (rake, scons, maybe make or a shell script).