What’s wrong with this picture?
Yesterday, while doing some updates to the machines in the test farm, I noticed something a little funny on qm-winxp01:
The pagefile allocation had ballooned to 1.27GB, while the physical memory on the machine only had 574MB out of 2GB left to it. That was some serious fragmentation. I took a snapshot of the process list (of all users) while I was in there and saw nothing using more than a couple dozen MB of memory. This is after an uptime of at least a couple weeks, so we’ll need to keep an eye on that machine, rebooting it as necessary.
In other related news, in an attempt to track down a spurious bug on Mac OS X, under the guidance of Robert Sayre, I’ve set qm-xserve01 to debug mode and am now cycling builds every 20 minutes. This is generating a lot of console chatter, but hopefully we’ll see the error condition again and that can provide some ammunition to get rid of the problem. Reftest numbers have returned to normal after some initial confusion by the summary generator.
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