3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
9127f5bbc3 hydra-queue-runner: Limit memory usage
When using a binary cache store, the queue runner receives NARs from
the build machines, compresses them, and uploads them to the
cache. However, keeping multiple large NARs in memory can cause the
queue runner to run out of memory. This can happen for instance when
it's processing multiple ISO images concurrently.

The fix is to use a TokenServer to prevent the builder threads to
store more than a certain total size of NARs concurrently (at the
moment, this is hard-coded at 4 GiB). Builder threads that cause the
limit to be exceeded will block until other threads have finished.

The 4 GiB limit does not include certain other allocations, such as
for xz compression or for FSAccessor::readFile(). But since these are
unlikely to be more than the size of the NARs and hydra.nixos.org has
32 GiB RAM, it should be fine.
2016-03-09 14:30:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8321a3eb27 Sync with Nix 2016-02-24 14:04:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4db7c51b5c Rate-limit the number of threads copying closures at the same time
Having a hundred threads doing I/O at the same time is bad on magnetic
disks because of the excessive disk seeks. So allow only 4 threads to
copy closures in parallel.
2015-06-23 01:49:14 +02:00