Re: [RFS] jalview

[Pierre Gruet <pgtdebian@free.fr>]

Hi Jim,

Le 07/02/2021 à 16:01, James Procter (Staff) a écrit :
> Hi Nilesh/Pierre
>
> It looks like the malloc-fail is due to jalview trying to grab as much 
> memory as possible on start up. That might need to be controlled for 
> testing, since the tests need at most 512MB.  @Pierre - should be simply 
> a case of adding -
> -jvmmemmax=512M
> for all test runs in 
> https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jalview/-/blob/master/debian/tests/someCommandLineInvocations 
> <https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jalview/-/blob/master/debian/tests/someCommandLineInvocations>

Thanks for your comments, I was also going to use -jvmmemmax in the 
tests. Yet, do you think it will be okay if someone with an i386 
computer tries to launch Jalview (I have in mind the main Jalview 
application, not my tests)?
Would it be reasonable to apply a default percentage for the maximum 
heap size of, say, 50 pct instead of 90?

> The errors about no X11 display being set are non-fatal and look like 
> our problem upstream (well, Ben's perhaps 🙂 ) rather than Pierre's.

Yeah, no problem about this :)

> Jim.

Thanks a lot,
Pierre

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Pierre Gruet <pgtdebian@free.fr>
> *Sent:* 07 February 2021 14:45
> *To:* Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [RFS] jalview
> Hi Nilesh,
>
> Le 07/02/2021 à 15:30, Nilesh Patra a écrit :
> > Hi Pierre,
> >
> > Thanks for your work on jalview. However, it seems that the autopkgtest 
> > fails on i386, which will prevent migration to testing.
> > It looks like a memalloc problem so maybe this can be simply skipped. Or 
> > if I'm mistaken, please consider fixing this and uploading.
>
> Yes, thanks for checking! Indeed the memory allocation appears to be
> problematic on i386. But I found some ways to fix it in a sensible way
> -- I am performing some checks and uploading then.
>
> > PS: Please upload with urgency:high so it hits bullseye
>
> Seems relevant. Although the autopkgtest will reduce the delay to 2 days
> in any case.
>
> > [1]: 
> > https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/i386/j/jalview/10322903/log.gz 
> <https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/i386/j/jalview/10322903/log.gz> 
>
> > <https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/i386/j/jalview/10322903/log.gz 
> <https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/i386/j/jalview/10322903/log.gz>>
> > Nilesh
>
> Bye,
> Pierre
>
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