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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:21:56 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade eats my swap space
Message-ID:  <20060118052156.GA98468@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060118041836.L884@www.pukruppa.net>
References:  <20060118041836.L884@www.pukruppa.net>

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:25:57AM +0100, P.U.Kruppa 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?

You are setting an illegal variable in your make.conf or environment
that is causing the port makefile to recurse.  Probably USE_GCC or
some other USE_*.

Kris

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