Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:27:18 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory limit in xz (/usr/local/bin/xz) Message-ID: <201006150727.18878.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <201006150257.o5F2vS9U024389@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <201006150257.o5F2vS9U024389@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Tuesday 15 June 2010 03:57:28 Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I upgraded that machine from 6.x to 7.3 I am hitting a memory
> limit with xz when trying to build/upgrade several ports.
>
> The error message looks like:
>
> /usr/local/bin/xz: /usr/ports/distfiles//libpng-1.4.1.tar.xz: Memory
> usage limit reached /usr/local/bin/xz: Limit was 46 MiB, but 65 MiB would
> have been needed
>
> Is there a config parameter to tell the make files in /usr/ports to
> desactivate xz memory limit?
From xz(1):
To prevent uncomfortable surprises caused by huge memory usage, xz has
a built-in memory usage limiter. While some operating systems provide
ways to limit the memory usage of processes, relying on it wasn't
deemed to be flexible enough. The default limit depends on the total
amount of physical RAM:
[...]
The default limit can be overridden with --memory=limit.
and
ENVIRONMENT
XZ_OPT A space-separated list of options is parsed from XZ_OPT before
parsing the options given on the command line. Note that only
options are parsed from XZ_OPT; all non-options are silently
ignored. Parsing is done with getopt_long(3) which is used also
for the command line arguments.
--
Bruce Cran
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