Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:53:26 -0700 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: FYI: what it takes for RAM+swap to build devel/llvm40 with 4 processors or cores and WITH__DEBUG= (powerpc64 example) Message-ID: <3EDEF0B7-59C5-4648-9737-6682E18645BC@dsl-only.net>
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Summary: RAM+(peak swap) was about 26 GiBytes.
Also: about 118 GiByte /usr/obj/. . ./llvm40/ area.
(2 processors, 2 cores each, all in use;
WITH_DEBUG=3D used)
The peak usage times were when the 4 cores were
each busy running ld at the same time.
[So far as I know FreeBSD does not report peak swap usage
"since boot". So I do not have a cross check on if I missed
seeing a higher peak then I report in the details below.]
What all this note spans as part of the build:
# more /var/db/ports/devel_llvm40/options
# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# Options for llvm40-4.0.0.r4
_OPTIONS_READ=3Dllvm40-4.0.0.r4
_FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=3DCLANG DOCS EXTRAS LIT LLD LLDB
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=3DCLANG
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=3DDOCS
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=3DEXTRAS
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=3DLIT
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=3DLLD
OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=3DLLDB
The system clang 4.0 was used to do the build. A port
binutils was used (-B${LOCALBASE}/bin/ in CFLAGS,
CXXFLAGS, an CPPFLAGS). The kernel was non-debug generally
but buildworld buildkernel did not have MALLOC_PRODUCTION=3D .
The llvm40 build did have MALLOC_PRODUCTION=3D .
# uname -paKU
FreeBSD FBSDG5L 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT r314687M powerpc =
powerpc64 1200023 1200023
Most of what I have access to for FreeBSD does not have a
big enough configuration to do a WITH_DEBUG=3D build of llvm40
on a machine with 4 cores, all in use.
One type of environment that does is an old PowerMac G5
so-called "Quad Core" that has 16 GiBytes of RAM, 17 GiBytes
of swap, and a 480 GiByte SSD (but extra over provisioned so
it appears even smaller for the file system+swap).
Watching with top the peak swap usage that I saw was
56% of the 17 GiByte --so call it 10 GiBytes or so.
So something like 16 GiBytes RAM + 10 GiBytes swap
and so something like 26 GiByte total.
I used portmaster with -DK. Afterwards the /usr/obj/
sub-area for llvm40 used totaled to a size of:
# du -sg /usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40
118 /usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40
So around 118 GiBytes of disk space.
Showing the major space usage contributions:
# du -sg /usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/.build/* =
/usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/stage/usr/local/llvm40/*
. . .
29 /usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/.build/bin
. . .
29 /usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/.build/lib
. . .
12 /usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/.build/tools
. . .
26 =
/usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/stage/usr/local/llvm40/bin
. . .
24 =
/usr/obj/portswork/usr/ports/devel/llvm40/work/stage/usr/local/llvm40/lib
. . .
Side notes that are more system specific:
The timestamps on the script output file indicate that
the build took about 8 hours 24 minutes.
The powerpc64 system used was built with the system clang
4.0 compiler and a port-based binutils. This is despite that
clang 4.0 produces code that has any thrown C++ exceptions
completely non-functional for powerpc64 (program crashes
via signals reporting problems).
=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net
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