From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 13:11:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492E61065694 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 913038FC12 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2010 13:11:23 -0000 Received: from baloo.cs.uni-paderborn.de (EHLO baloo.cs.uni-paderborn.de) [131.234.21.116] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 12 Aug 2010 15:11:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ubJc7VkeuNOgZUP1Ujiv+ntIpFEwL93GM2c7Utl vm6VucTMVTJ/0F Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de) by baloo.cs.uni-paderborn.de with esmtp (Exim 4.70) (envelope-from ) id L71JAY-000628-JV for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:11:22 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:11:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Matthias Andree" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.61 (Win32) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: xz memory limit override X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:11:25 -0000 Warren Block wrote on 2010-08-01: > xz(1) has a built-in protective notion about limiting memory usage that > prevents port building on relatively low-memory computers. Users have > experienced this in the wild[1]. > > Matthias Andree pointed out[2] that there are existing ways to limit > memory usage: "They can use ulimit(1) -- or whatever their favourite > login shell offers -- to set soft memory limits." > > I submitted ports/148250[3] to add the "-Mmax" option to port xz > extractions. There haven't been any squawks of outrage, peeps of > agreement, or even acks of, uh, acknowledgement. Hence this message, to > bring it up again for a status check. I'm in favour of adding such a command line option to extraction, because it appears that upstream solutions are stalled or progressing slowly (I haven't checked the xz git repo though), and it's critical to the build process that we can actually extract. -- Matthias Andree