Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:52:34 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: ports@freebsd.org, openoffice@FreeBSD.org Subject: unreasonable amount of memory used in openoffice build Message-ID: <20081019145234.GA67034@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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hi, i noticed on my laptop (Dell X1 w/ 512MB ram - i386, RELENG_7 that openoffice3 is using an unreasonable amount of memory to build one of its components (during the build of resourcemodel, the offending file is unxfbsdi.pro/misc/qnametostr.cxx) which causes the build machine to spend a huge amount of time swapping. It seems to be a known issue http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=215291 and our port includes a workaround that is applied only on amd64 with the following section in the port's Makefile: .if ${ARCH} == amd64 WITHOUT_MOZILLA= yes LIB_DEPENDS+= boost_regex:${PORTSDIR}/devel/boost CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-system-boost=yes #i58343# .if (${OSVERSION} >= 700042) EXTRA_PATCHES+= ${FILESDIR}/amd64-gcc42-workaround .endif .endif I would suggest to apply the fix unconditionally (at least by default, possibly override it with some build option if needed). On amd64 according to the above URL the problem is particularly bad as it requires more than 4GB of memory (RAM/SWAP) but even on i386 the compiler process grows well above 1GB of memory and together with other stuff (browser, X and more) easily consuming 2-300MB each, it is not unlikely to hit the swap on many boxes. Makes sense ? cheers luigi
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