Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 07:51:46 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@inetspace.com> To: witr@rwwa.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Message-ID: <199805011251.HAA08276@soccer.inetspace.com> In-Reply-To: <199804302321.TAA15478@spooky.rwwa.com> (message from Robert Withrow on Thu, 30 Apr 1998 19:21:17 -0400)
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>>>>> "witr" == Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> writes:
> drosih@rpi.edu said: :- If what we're implementing is basically
> the same as AIX's SIGDANGER, :- then I'd just as soon call it
> SIGDANGER.
> I must be really stupid. I do builds of the same software
> package on SunOs, Solaris, FreeBSD(2.2.x), HPUX, and AIX. These
> machines are simliarly configured with memory, etc, and all of
> the file space is NFS mounted.
> The builds on all of the machines *except* AIX *always* run to
> completion. The AIX box will sometimes complete and sometimes
> not, and sometimes I have to re-start builds two or three times.
> (You can't imagine how annoying it is to get messages like: "my
> build failed!!! What did you do to the build?" when it is just
> stupid AIX shooting innocent processes!)
The AIX ld can use LARGE amounts of VM because it brings all libraries
into memory before resolving symbols. If you are linking with lots of
libraries you need lots of swap space. I seem to remember that
emacs/gcc needed about 150MB to successfully build.
> If this is such a great idea, why is it such a pain in the ass?
> Also, why have I never encountered FreeBSD doing this random
> process killin thing, nomatter *how* much load I put on it?
> Just asking...
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA,
> witr@rwwa.COM
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