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On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 06:08:49PM +0100, Michael wrote: |
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> On Friday, 19 June 2020 17:10:54 BST urpion@×××.com wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: |
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> > > NP, did you get an OOM error in dmesg when this happened by any chance? |
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> > > You don't seem to have much RAM, you have no swap and the number of jobs |
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> > > is relatively high for memory hungry compiles. |
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> > > It could be a bug, but unless a report has been filed already in BGO to |
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> > > this effect, I suggest you add a swapfile, enable it, and try again with |
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> > > MAKEOPTS="-j1" or "-j2". Please ask if you need more detail. |
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> > I was thinking about -j1. I tried -j4. I thought I didn't need swap with |
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> > >=4GB of RAM, but it makes sense. My machine kinda crawls trying to build |
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> > that package. Oh man, I'll have to re-partition:-( |
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> A single compile job on a big package can eat >3G of RAM. I don't know what |
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> spidermonkey jobs may grow up to, but drop it down to '-j1' and see what you |
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> get. |
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> A swapfile which you enable on a per ebuild basis if required, can be handy. |
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> You can configure this in a package.profile file. On an ext4 fs you could do |
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> this as root: |
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> touch swapfile |
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=4096 count=400000 |
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> mkswap -L Swappage swapfile |
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> swapon swapfile |
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> If it is a btrfs you'll need to tweak things to be able to used it as a swap: |
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file |
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Wow. Thanks Micheal. That's really cool. I will try that. |