Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:37:23 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Maher <tonym@biolateral.com.au> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: processes spawning out of control Message-ID: <200204270537.g3R5bNdT075016@dt.home>
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Hello the following command spawn thousands of processes until proc limit e.g. portinstall -R -F kde # USE_KDEBASE_VER=3 Output from top: last pid: 35490; load averages: 1.39, 0.71, 0.29 up 0+21:37:16 12:56:53 2011 processes:6 running, 2004 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 22.1% user, 0.9% nice, 46.9% system, 0.5% interrupt, 29.6% idle Mem: 37M Active, 11M Inact, 62M Wired, 5548K Cache, 22M Buf, 6928K Free Swap: 512M Total, 345M Used, 166M Free, 67% Inuse, 100K In, 136K Out Maybe its just kde3 because its a metaport and so many dependecies?! Have I missed an obvious option to stop this spawning (of parallel makes)? I tried to use -m with portinstall and give make -B or -j 1 but seemed to make no difference (I abort after several hundred makes started). I can increase max number of processes allowed but the swapping/paging slows the machine too much anyway. thanks -- tonym To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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