Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:23:39 +0300 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Da Rock <freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libxul build hit the roof! Message-ID: <86fwtgob5w.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4D1B044F.6050903@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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Da Rock <freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au> writes: > I was doing an update of my system, and I hit these errors and skipped > builds all over the place; so I've been eliminating them one by one > and making the skipped list smaller. > > In the process of these investigations I noticed that my system > practically froze several times and I spotted multiple pfaults through > top. Try building with -Wl,--no-keep-memory in CFLAGS/LDFLAGS. My guess is that you don't have enough memory to keep linking process from being swapped out. > I also ran a lone run of just libxul as it was one in the list > with an error: new compiler error. > > I then basically shut every app I was running down and ran it again > with just top showing. I found that at least one part hit the roof of > my system, with nsCharacter... something or rather running at 1430M+ > in swap, and 520M+ resident when compiling. > > Does anyone else think it might be wise to put a warning during build > saying that this could take over 2G+ of memory to compile, and rebuild > with no apps running if it fails? No need to kill (inactive) apps, they'd be swapped out during build.
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