From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 26 22:38:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from c16703.thorn1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (c16703.thorn1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [210.49.148.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBD637B400 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dt.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c16703.thorn1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3R5chhT076124 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:38:43 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from tonym@dt.home) Received: (from tonym@localhost) by dt.home (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3R5bNdT075016 for ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:37:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from tonym) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:37:23 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Maher Message-Id: <200204270537.g3R5bNdT075016@dt.home> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: processes spawning out of control Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello the following command spawn thousands of processes until proc limit e.g. portinstall -R -F kde # USE_KDEBASE_VER=3 Output from top: last pid: 35490; load averages: 1.39, 0.71, 0.29 up 0+21:37:16 12:56:53 2011 processes:6 running, 2004 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 22.1% user, 0.9% nice, 46.9% system, 0.5% interrupt, 29.6% idle Mem: 37M Active, 11M Inact, 62M Wired, 5548K Cache, 22M Buf, 6928K Free Swap: 512M Total, 345M Used, 166M Free, 67% Inuse, 100K In, 136K Out Maybe its just kde3 because its a metaport and so many dependecies?! Have I missed an obvious option to stop this spawning (of parallel makes)? I tried to use -m with portinstall and give make -B or -j 1 but seemed to make no difference (I abort after several hundred makes started). I can increase max number of processes allowed but the swapping/paging slows the machine too much anyway. thanks -- tonym To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message