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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 10:49:27AM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> Some ebuilds, I have chromium in mind here, can chew up all your |
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> RAM and then start thrashing swap continuously. To make matters |
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> worse in pre-empting this, they only do it for a few versions, then |
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> revert to better managed memory usage. On a box with 4G RAM I set |
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> MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l2" for such troublesome packages and swap usage is |
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> kept within normal limits. |
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I just tried with MAKEOPTS="-j1" and got the same failure output at |
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the same place. I normally run with the number equal to the number of |
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cores. On this notebook MAKEOPTS="-j2". Are there any other |
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memory-conserving tweaks available? |
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> I think the message "[drm] HPD interrupt storm" refers to some old |
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> kernel bug, but it could be a regression. Which kernel are you using? |
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4.14.61-gentoo |
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[thimk][root][~] uname -a |
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Linux thimk 4.14.61-gentoo #3 SMP Fri Aug 17 04:14:29 EDT 2018 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |