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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:12:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, "John A. Hengstler" <john@salmon.hei.net>
Subject:   Re: Buildworld fails
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981219121229.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812182059310.25061-100000@salmon.hei.net>

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> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Mike Jackson wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, John A. Hengstler wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Normally I would agree with this, except, 2.2.8 make buildworlds and
>> > > installworlds, work fine on same machine..

>> > hmmm, are you thrashing at all?  how is your memory/swap?  maybe you have
>> > dying deamons, but with regular processes?

>> Why don't you see what happens when you mount /usr with softupdates?  Let
>> me guess, the build has been going on for quite some time before it dies?
>> Also, are you running X Windows at the same time as doing the make world?
>> Which would cause you to start swapping.  
>> 
>> I've seen the problems you describe on my machine, but have been able to
>> get around them by mounting /usr with softupdates/noatime and not using
>> the box when the world is being built (hence, very little swap space is
>> used).

But a make world remains a compiler pass if somewhat large. How on earth does a
make world justify the reason that a box cannot be used? I may be thick regarding
this but every make world I have done was under X and with me reading/writing
email. Sure the compilation take somewhat longer, but in no way does it justify
the reason to not touch the box.

And I can also not see what swapping should have to do with the failure of a
compiler pass.

Someone is bound to point me in the right direction if I am spewing forth
erroneously thought-up ideas.

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                  Pax vobiscum...
asmodai(at)wxs.nl
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