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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:05:55 -0800 (PST)
From: "John A. Hengstler" <john@salmon.hei.net>
To: Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net>
cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Buildworld fails
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Nothing running on machine, except the release startup programs.  It is
not a production machine, so no other user activity.

swapspace is 12% used, machine has 16 megs of ram,  with 150meg of swap.

John


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?
> > 
> > can you successfully do a non-parallel build?
> > 
> 
> 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).
> 
> Mike
> 
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