Hi, I'm getting the following error. I am not sure it is due to memory overconsumption. From

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I see that there is ~8000/15728 free memory available. Could someone help me trouble shoot this? I have tried closing all apps and rebooting

native_engine.PantsdClientException: The pantsd process was killed during the run.

If this was not intentionally done by you, Pants may have been killed by the operating system due to memory overconsumption (i.e. OOM-killed). If you keep seeing this error message, try the troubleshooting steps below. If none of those help, please consider filing a GitHub issue or reaching out on Slack so that we can investigate the possible memory overconsumption (<https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/getting-help>).
 - Exit other applications, including applications running in the background.
 - Set the global option `--pantsd-max-memory-usage` to reduce Pantsd's memory consumption by retaining less in its in-memory cache (run `./pants help-advanced global`).
 - Disable pantsd with the global option `--no-pantsd` to avoid persisting memory across Pants runs, although you will miss out on additional caching.

Did you try the last bit of advice there? It may surface the real issue to the console. Otherwise you may need to poke around in the .pants.d/ logs.

Apologies, I'm not sure how to execute the last bit of advice. How do I use`--no-pantsd` to disable pantsd? Is there a command I need to put in front of this? I tried

./pants --no-pantsd

and got

No goals specified.

What am I doing wrong?

Whatever the command was that triggered your original post, add it there. If it was, say,

pants test ::

then you want

pants --no-pantsd test ::

The command was

arc diff

which doesn't seem to recognize

--no-pantsd

Ok, clearly there are layers of scripting beneath that that eventually calls pants. @high-yak-85899?

Yes, there is some automated command writing to extract out the tests needed to run.

PANTS_PANTSD=False arc diff

may do it as well.

PANTS_PANTSD=False arc diff

worked, thank you

Worked how? You're killing me! :) What did you discover?

It successfully disabled pantsd and I didn't get the error when doing

arc diff

🙂

Erm, ok. So the mystery remains. I'm glad you're unblocked though.

Yeah should've clarified. Sorry for the unsatisfactory response but glad there's a temporary solution!