Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:38:07 +0300 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [9.2-STABLE/CLANG 3.3|3.4] x11/kdelibs4 Message-ID: <86ppkblrkw.fsf@orwell.Elisa> References: <20140418081014.2ac2536e@munin.walstatt.dyndns.org> <641C6CAA-C472-4359-9293-E65F16E84DC6@FreeBSD.org> <20140419103237.41962eff.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <A9688D03-8CC4-4C60-9BBD-A364BB598D46@FreeBSD.org> <20140419193019.0ee792e6.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CBBECAB9-B48F-416C-BE39-64D6D5738B9C@FreeBSD.org> <20140420174725.199ec7af.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <C340C8EC-9AE2-495F-9141-76B4571E0DBE@FreeBSD.org>
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Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> The box in question is a Dell Latitude E6510 notebook with only 4 GB of RAM, could this >> be the issue? The system very often starts swapping. Even my oldstyle E8400 workstation >> with only 8 GB (most recent 11.0-CURRENT) starts swapping very often and recently, I saw >> musterious compiler erros and stopping compiling processes never seen bevor. Restarting >> the failed portbuild most often finish successfully. > > There were some postings recently, about newer versions of FreeBSD being > supposedly more "swappy", see e.g.: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-April/thread.html#78361 > > I have no idea if this is really substantiated with evidence, or just a > feeling, though. :) > > In any case, when you are experiencing mysterious compiler errors, and > your system is heavily exercising RAM and swap, it is always a good idea > to do a full hardware diagnostics test. > > For your RAM, you can use memtest86+, and since you have a Dell, you can > use their diagnostics program to test other parts of the machine. For what it's worth, ports/187150 might be related to this as well (I've never experienced those problems myself, but I'm on HEAD).
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