Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

[J. Roeleveld]

On June 13, 2019 11:48:04 AM UTC, Alexey Eschenko <skobkin-ru@××.ru> wrote:
>That was my first move. Unfortunately it didn't help.
>
>But in the first answer in this thread I saw a good idea about
>decreasing number of parallel build threads.
>
>I have MAKEOPTS="-j32" and it's probably the cause of my problem with
>this package.
>
>Right now I'm trying separate build environment with decreased job
>count value and it looks promissing.
>
>I'll leave the message with results in the reply to that message.
>

When using --jobs (I had issues with -j once because a different build tool used it for something else) it is a good idea to also add --load-average. This will limit the amount of jobs when the load average goes up. (And that goes up fast when swap is touched)

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Joost



>
>13.06.2019, 14:13, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
>
>On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:19:24 +0300, Alexey Eschenko wrote:
>
>
>For some time I have problems with dev-qt/qtwebengine (at least 5.12.3)
> build. As far as I can see it fails to build due to memory exhaustion.
> Although I have 32 GB of RAM (at least 20 of them is almost always
> free) looks like it's not enough. It's strange because I have no
> problems with Firefox/Chromium/Libreoffice builds.
>
>
>Do you have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on a tmpfs filesystem? I had a similar
>problem, on a slightly less well-endowed system, and had to use
>portage.env to instruct that ebuild, as well as chromium and
>libreoffice,
>to use a directory on my SSD for PORTAGE_TMPDIR.
>
>% cat /etc/portage/package.env/qt
>dev-qt/qtwebengine disk-tmpdir.conf
>
>% cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
>PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"
>
>
>
>--
>Neil Bothwick
>
>
>Assassins do it from behind.


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