Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:05:55 -0800 (PST) From: "John A. Hengstler" <john@salmon.hei.net> To: Mike Jackson <muck@ida.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld fails Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812182059310.25061-100000@salmon.hei.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812182106240.9123-100000@falcon.hinterlands.com>
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Nothing running on machine, except the release startup programs. It is not a production machine, so no other user activity. swapspace is 12% used, machine has 16 megs of ram, with 150meg of swap. John On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Mike Jackson wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, John A. Hengstler wrote: > > > > > Normally I would agree with this, except, 2.2.8 make buildworlds and > > > installworlds, work fine on same machine.. > > > > > > > hmmm, are you thrashing at all? how is your memory/swap? maybe you have > > dying deamons, but with regular processes? > > > > can you successfully do a non-parallel build? > > > > Why don't you see what happens when you mount /usr with softupdates? Let > me guess, the build has been going on for quite some time before it dies? > Also, are you running X Windows at the same time as doing the make world? > Which would cause you to start swapping. > > I've seen the problems you describe on my machine, but have been able to > get around them by mounting /usr with softupdates/noatime and not using > the box when the world is being built (hence, very little swap space is > used). > > Mike > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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