Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:00:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/37946: portupgrade: portsdb -Uu exhausts memory Message-ID: <200205110600.g4B605A02754@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/37946; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@hmc.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/37946: portupgrade: portsdb -Uu exhausts memory Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:57:42 -0700 Nate Eldredge wrote: >>Number: 37946 >>Category: ports >>Synopsis: portupgrade: portsdb -Uu exhausts memory >>Confidential: no >>Severity: serious >>Priority: high >>Responsible: freebsd-ports >>State: open >>Quarter: >>Keywords: >>Date-Required: >>Class: sw-bug >>Submitter-Id: current-users >>Arrival-Date: Fri May 10 22:00:02 PDT 2002 >>Closed-Date: >>Last-Modified: >>Originator: Nate Eldredge >>Release: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p4 i386 >>Organization: >> > Harvey Mudd College > >>Environment: >> > System: FreeBSD mercury 4.5-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p4 #6: Sat May 4 15:58:41 PDT 2002 nate@mercury:/big/obj/big/src/sys/MERCURY i386 > > > > >>Description: >> > Running portsdb -Uu runs for a while, then starts a perl process which > grows to use over 300M of memory. This exhausts the virtual memory on > my machine, the process gets killed, and the index update doesn't work. > > My ports tree was checked out this morning. The only unusual feature > about it is that excludes most non-English ports. My refuse file contains: > > ports/chinese > ports/french > ports/german > ports/hebrew > ports/japanese/[^nt]* > ports/korean > ports/russian > ports/ukrainian > ports/vietnamese > > I have reproduced this both times I tried it. I'm happy to send more details, > test patches, etc. > > I have portupgrade rev.1.179 installed, which I believe is the latest. > >>How-To-Repeat: >> > portsdb -Uu > >>Fix: >> > I wish! > This was fixed when the expat2 - gettext problem was eliminated. You need to recvsup ports-all. Kent > >>Release-Note: >>Audit-Trail: >>Unformatted: >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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