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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-3.6.5 rebuild fails on new install
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 17:18:42
Message-Id: 20180819171820.GA23829@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-3.6.5 rebuild fails on new install by Mick
1 On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 10:49:27AM +0100, Mick wrote
2
3 > Some ebuilds, I have chromium in mind here, can chew up all your
4 > RAM and then start thrashing swap continuously. To make matters
5 > worse in pre-empting this, they only do it for a few versions, then
6 > revert to better managed memory usage. On a box with 4G RAM I set
7 > MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l2" for such troublesome packages and swap usage is
8 > kept within normal limits.
9
10 I just tried with MAKEOPTS="-j1" and got the same failure output at
11 the same place. I normally run with the number equal to the number of
12 cores. On this notebook MAKEOPTS="-j2". Are there any other
13 memory-conserving tweaks available?
14
15 > I think the message "[drm] HPD interrupt storm" refers to some old
16 > kernel bug, but it could be a regression. Which kernel are you using?
17
18 4.14.61-gentoo
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20 [thimk][root][~] uname -a
21 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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25 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
26 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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