Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:25:33 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: Matt <matt@xtaz.co.uk>, CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OOOPS - portupgrade/Swapfile/??? Message-ID: <200304041225.33721.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <20030404100459.M67134@xtaz.co.uk> References: <200304041156.38051.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <20030404100459.M67134@xtaz.co.uk>
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Did portupgrade get updated then? I am not using gnome... The only thing I can think of is that an update has created a loop within itself, thereby launching subsequent sorts...I get 10 or so sorts, about 20-30 make's, kill them they come back... Anthony On Friday 04 April 2003 12:09, Matt wrote: > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:56:37 +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote > > > Watching with swapinfo, my 500Mb (256 Mb Ram) swapfile just fills > > up...on stopping portupgrade, swap file is emptied... > > I have exactly the same thing, just my machine can cope with it a bit > better as I have 512M physical and 1gig swap. It's currently running a > portupgrade -rai and doing all the recent gnome commits. The first 6 or 7 > upgrades of installed ports went without a hitch but since then at the > points where it says "Building ...." and "Registering installation for > ...." I get this: > > OK? [yes] > ---> Build of x11/gnomesession started at: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:04:52 +0100 > ---> Building '/usr/ports/x11/gnomesession' > make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily unavailable > > and the physical ram in use just goes up and up and up until it runs out > and then the swap space does the same. After a few minutes (luckily before > it runs out) it stops. All the ram is free'd and the portupgrade carries > on. > > During this time looking at a "top" it appears it's due to around ten > "sort" processes doing something or other at the time. > > This looks more like a portupgrade issue rather than a -CURRENT issue > however. > > Matt.
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