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Date:      Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:15:32 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Same problem w/ 5.3 (Was: problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1)
Message-ID:  <20041208181532.GA638@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041208180858.GA10932@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
References:  <20041207222347.GA23656@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <60451.207.219.213.163.1102458724.squirrel@207.219.213.163> <20041207233101.GA29595@ack.Berkeley.EDU> <20041208180858.GA10932@ack.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:08:58AM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote:
> On Dec 07, "To Mike Jakubik" wrote:
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> Hi,
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> > On Dec 07, "Mike Jakubik" wrote:
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> > > > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just
> > > > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks :)
> > >=20
> > > Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release version)? =
If
> > > this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you install 5.3 instead.=
 Perl
> > > 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too.
> >=20
> > Actually I did 5.2.1 because that was the install media I had handy :)
> > I'm building a RELENG_5 world/kernel as we speak...I'll be back if it
> > doesn't work out :)
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> I upgraded to 5.3, but I still am having the same problem:
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> #uname -a=20
> FreeBSD mybox 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Tue Dec  7 15:35:28 PST 2=
004     root@mybox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mybox  amd64
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> `WITH_GDBM=3D1 make` works fine, but `make test` still fails.  It hangs f=
or
> a long time on=20
>=20
> lib/Config................................
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> And...and I was going to copy and paste the same error message as I sent
> yesterday, but instead ssh hung up on me, and the console has the
> following bad news:
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> swap_pager:  out of swap space
> swap_pager_getwwapspace(16): failed
> ...sshd was killed ...out of swap space
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> Top says it was a very big boy indeed while it was running:
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> 17771 root     130    0 10732M  2470M CPU0   0  13:41 103.17% 103.17% perl
>=20
> I'm willing to do a binary package as a last resort, but I'm planning on
> building code on this box so it'd be better to get this resolved properly
> :)
>=20
> I'm going to try changing the perl MALLOC options.  This machine has 8G of
> ram, are there still problems with large memory on amd64?

A fix for mmap's larger then 2GB was committed to HEAD yesterday so it's
possiable that's your issue.

-- Brooks

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