Tangentially related the above, what do people think about dynamic config options? With devs having varying machinery it's hard for me to set, for example the

pantsd

memory size, in

pants.toml

for fear I'll lightly nuke someone's laptop. being able to set it to a %-of-resource could help. As a datapoint, I kept seeing

pantsd

restart on each

lint

run because the default wasn't enough. I don't expect the data scientists who run these commands to notice it's even an issue, let alone know what to set and to what.

Are you viewing logs to become aware of those restarts?

Yes to logs (which I think you pointed me to 😉 )

would it help for us to add a counter metric for pantsd restarts?

I think more things logged in stats log is a good idea

this is something you could set dynamically in

./pants

with

export PANTS_PANTSD_MAX_MEMORY_USAGE=...

Setting it isn't hard, determining it is 😂