Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:54:58 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Miskulin <birdfund@yahoo.com> To: "flo@FreeBSD.org" <flo@FreeBSD.org>, "gecko@FreeBSD.org" <gecko@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports/164594: www/firefox 9 is broken Message-ID: <1327874098.61385.YahooMailNeo@web161803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <201201291155.q0TBtYqH086607@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201201291155.q0TBtYqH086607@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Thank you for the quick reply.=A0 Indeed, that appeared to be the issue.=A0= For others who may see this (or similar) - =0A=0A=0AMy system has 1GB core= and 1GB swap.=A0 Today I did a clean boot and monitored the build.=A0 I en= abled the same options as yesterday, including the profiling. =0A=0A=0ADuri= ng the first part of the build, swap use maxed out about 750MB.=A0 Subseque= ntly, the profile build ran its tests, closed and the new build continued.= =A0 Watching closely, I saw swap top out at 964MB and then fall off dramati= cally from that point. =0A=0A=0AI know there was an IM application open las= t night as well as a few additional xterms.=A0 I'm guessing those were enou= gh to have pushed the swap usage just over 1GB and thus crash the build. = =0A=0A=0AOf additional note: =0A=0A=0AWhen I dropped out of X this morning = and back to the regular console, I did see an out of memory error (or simil= ar wording to that effect).=A0 This did not show up while running via xterm= and I never thought to look at any logs as the profiling build of firefox = had been successful,=0A=0ATo give a cushion today (as the build takes forev= er), I prepared a temporary swapfile and enabled that while doing the build= . =0A=0A=0ABottomline: you need just over 2GB to build the firefox 9 port s= uccessfully.=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0A From: "flo@Free= BSD.org" <flo@FreeBSD.org>=0ATo: birdfund@yahoo.com; flo@FreeBSD.org; gecko= @FreeBSD.org =0ASent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:55 AM=0ASubject: Re: ports= /164594: www/firefox 9 is broken=0A =0ASynopsis: www/firefox 9 is broken=0A= =0A=0AThis is usually an indication that you don't have enough free=0Amemor= y/swap space to build firefox. How much memory does you system=0Ahave?=0A= =0Ahttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D164594
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