[tor-bugs] #12457 [Tor Sysadmin Team]: Memory request for cappadocicum

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#12457: Memory request for cappadocicum
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 Reporter:  atagar             |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor              |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
 Keywords:                     |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                     |         Points:
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 Hi Andrew. Over the last day or so I've received 21 notices about
 cappadocicum running out of memory...

 {{{
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/srv/doctor.torproject.org/doctor/consensus_health_checker.py",
 line 636, in <module>
     util.send("Script Error", body_text = msg, destination =
 util.ERROR_ADDRESS)
   File "/srv/doctor.torproject.org/doctor/util.py", line 97, in send
     stderr = subprocess.PIPE,
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
     errread, errwrite)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1153, in _execute_child
     self.pid = os.fork()
 OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
 }}}

 Strange. This is indicating an OOM while sending email at the end, not for
 fetching the descriptors (which should be the memory intensive bit). Oh
 well...

 We ran into memory issues before and you said that it's trivial to add
 more, but want to keep the virt as lean as possible. Mind adding more?
 Unfortunately the above stacktrace doesn't give me any hint about how much
 is necessary so I leave that to your judgment.

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