Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:23:50 +0100 (CET) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade eats my swap space Message-ID: <20060118061411.K884@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20060118110501.00aa95a8@127.0.0.1> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20060118110501.00aa95a8@127.0.0.1>
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: > At 04:25 AM 1/18/2006 +0100, you wrote: >> Hi! >> >> OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running >> 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006 >> >> When I start a >> >> # portupgrade -a >> >> up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message: >> >> make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily >> unavailable >> >> and of course everything becomes really slow. Has anybody else seen this? > > Yes. I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a PII 300MHz with 64MB RAM and a 40GB hard > drive. It works great until I run portupgrade on mysql-server. Then it runs > out of swap space and I get console error messages and have to reboot. I > haven't dug into it yet, but several months ago I redirected the swap file to > a different location to increase the size. I'll have to do some research to > find out exactly what I did and how much space I gave it and how to increase > it. I haven't had time yet to do it. Don't know why building mysql-* (and > possibly some others) takes so much swap space. I first encountered it > running portmanager -u and didn't realize for a couple of days (and four or > five freeze-ups) what was happening. > This really has become more dramatic: Usually - when I run a portupgrade - about half of my RAM is used and I can still work on my Gnome desktop without any swapping or serious performance losses. Now every port produces this Max recursion message and applications become unusable. Uli. ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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