Dimitry Andric <d...@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). _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
