[Anthill] not enough space problem

[Matt Avery]

Thanks, we found the problem.  There were two runaway ant processes that 
didn't die when we bounced the server because they had been forked.  The 
were eating up all the resources on the machine.

Eric Minick wrote:
> Matt,
> 
>    Amusingly, Googling for CVS "Not enough space" points back to the Anthill
> mailing list archives from Jan-Feb 2003. The solution that appeared to work
> there was to switch from SSHing in CVS to using pserver. If that's an option
> you might try it, but I can't explain why that worked with respect to what
> else I discovered.
>    It doesn't look like the "not enough space" message is coming from CVS.
> Instead it looks to be the message from an IOException. You might be able to
> confirm this by running Anthill in debug mode. A number of people report
> this exception when trying to execute a process out of Java on a variety of
> unixes (particularly Solaris). That's Anthill is doing when it executes cvs.
> I wasn't able to track down anyone who said they had the problem and then
> happily reported how they fixed it.
>    I did get some good leads though. First off, it looks to be totally
> memory or operating system resource dependant - not triggered by disk space.
> Second, there it appears that when the Runtime.exec() method is run, the
> native method for these OSes forks off from the source java process. Whether
> this requires a chunk of memory big enough to hold the parent VM seems to be
> a matter of some debate. The suggestion to solve a similar problem that Sun
> gave was to increase the Java heap size by adjusting the -Xms parameter on
> your web container. Others have suggested increasing your available swap
> space. Still others are quick to blame a lack of some system resource like
> file descriptors or threads - those posts feel more like guesswork to me
> though.
>    Please let me know what you discover.
> 
> Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anthill-bounces at lists.urbancode.com
> [mailto:anthill-bounces at lists.urbancode.com]On Behalf Of Matt Avery
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:48 AM
> To: eric at urbancode.com; Anthill user list
> Subject: Re: [Anthill] not enough space problem
> 
> 
> We're using CVS.  I haven't had time to try the checkout from the
> command line, but we are having no problem checking it out with Eclipse.
> 
> 
> Eric Minick wrote:
> 
>>Hi Matthew,
>>
>>	Looks like the message may be coming out of the version control system.
>>That gives us a direction to look. Have you tried the command Anthill
> 
> users
> 
>>to do the checkout outside of Anthill? Also, would you share which vcs
>>you're using - there could always be more information in a specific driver
>>that could shed some light on the problem.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Eric Minick
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi all,
>>
>>We have a build server with 38 projects on it.  Recently we started
>>getting this message from the build server:
>>
>>Retrieving project files: FAILED to build project.  Message: Not enough
>>space
>>
>>We have checked disk space and memory and that doesn't appear to be the
>>problem on the surface.  Once we start getting the message, all of the
>>builds start failing with the same message.  We are looking at memory
>>problems, possibly with one of the projects.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>>Matthew Avery
>>
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