Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:59:21 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much memory to compile www/chromium? Message-ID: <bm5o-wvo6-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20181214012733.GA92808@www.zefox.net> (bob prohaska's message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:27:33 -0800") References: <20181212165313.GA84881@www.zefox.net> <20181212184149.ol44fon2unowu35q@squirrel.exwg.net> <20181212192115.GA85583@www.zefox.net> <20181212202504.4n3mhtx7grbeh6j7@squirrel.exwg.net> <20181214012733.GA92808@www.zefox.net>
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bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:25:04PM +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
>
>> ## bob prohaska (fbsd@www.zefox.net):
>>
>> > > See bsd.ports.mk: DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS (as in "make -DDISABLE_MAKE_JOBS").
>> > >
>> > Thank you, I think that's the information needed. Come to think of it,
>> > will the -j option, such as -j2, work in this situation also? Two threads
>> > are much better than one 8-)
>>
>> If you had looked into bsd.port.mk yourself... right below the docs of
>> DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS (line 814) is some documentation for MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER
>> and MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT. -j won't help because there's a lot of
>
> Setting MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2 seems to have the desired effect. Still,
> top reports four c++ processes, but only two are running and swap use
> seldom exceeds 1GB at worst. So far, that's been enough to prevent stalling.
>
> Editing /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk looks like it'll affect all ports;
> what's the convention for making the change local to www/chromium only?
MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT is a user variable, so you can either set in
make.conf or Makefile.local e.g.,
$ cat <<\. >>${__MAKE_CONF:-/etc/make.conf}
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/chromium}
MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT=2
.endif
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