From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 02:25:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6552E37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 02:25:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F48743FB1 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 02:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h34ASwnf016798; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:28:58 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id <2HMPCKDX>; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:22:45 +0200 Received: from intra241.intrasoft.lu (212.190.217.170 [212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id 2HMPCKDW; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:22:42 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Matt , CARTER Anthony , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Organization: Intrasoft Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:25:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200304041156.38051.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <20030404100459.M67134@xtaz.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030404100459.M67134@xtaz.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304041225.33721.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-126.1 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: OOOPS - portupgrade/Swapfile/??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:25:20 -0000 Did portupgrade get updated then? I am not using gnome... The only thing I can think of is that an update has created a loop within itself, thereby launching subsequent sorts...I get 10 or so sorts, about 20-30 make's, kill them they come back... Anthony On Friday 04 April 2003 12:09, Matt wrote: > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:56:37 +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote > > > Watching with swapinfo, my 500Mb (256 Mb Ram) swapfile just fills > > up...on stopping portupgrade, swap file is emptied... > > I have exactly the same thing, just my machine can cope with it a bit > better as I have 512M physical and 1gig swap. It's currently running a > portupgrade -rai and doing all the recent gnome commits. The first 6 or 7 > upgrades of installed ports went without a hitch but since then at the > points where it says "Building ...." and "Registering installation for > ...." I get this: > > OK? [yes] > ---> Build of x11/gnomesession started at: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:04:52 +0100 > ---> Building '/usr/ports/x11/gnomesession' > make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable > > and the physical ram in use just goes up and up and up until it runs out > and then the swap space does the same. After a few minutes (luckily before > it runs out) it stops. All the ram is free'd and the portupgrade carries > on. > > During this time looking at a "top" it appears it's due to around ten > "sort" processes doing something or other at the time. > > This looks more like a portupgrade issue rather than a -CURRENT issue > however. > > Matt.