From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 19:38:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CD8821B for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02F671CC4 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WbxZJ-0003iE-Es for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:38:25 +0200 Received: from a91-154-115-217.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([91.154.115.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:38:25 +0200 Received: from rakuco by a91-154-115-217.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:38:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Raphael Kubo da Costa Subject: Re: [9.2-STABLE/CLANG 3.3|3.4] x11/kdelibs4 Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:38:07 +0300 Lines: 25 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> <20140419193019.0ee792e6.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20140420174725.199ec7af.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a91-154-115-217.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4m5ywY2OPh07UKonn1lu9U3HJnI= Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:38:30 -0000 Dimitry Andric 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).