On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Roger Merritt wrote:
At 04:25 AM 1/18/2006 +0100, you wrote:
Hi!
OK, this is an old PIII 1 GHZ , 500 MB RAM running
6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 15 05:56:00 CET 2006
When I start a
# portupgrade -a
up to 671 MB swap are used and I see this message:
make: Max recursion level (500) exceeded.: Resource temporarily
unavailable
and of course everything becomes really slow. Has anybody else seen this?
Yes. I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a PII 300MHz with 64MB RAM and a 40GB hard
drive. It works great until I run portupgrade on mysql-server. Then it runs
out of swap space and I get console error messages and have to reboot. I
haven't dug into it yet, but several months ago I redirected the swap file to
a different location to increase the size. I'll have to do some research to
find out exactly what I did and how much space I gave it and how to increase
it. I haven't had time yet to do it. Don't know why building mysql-* (and
possibly some others) takes so much swap space. I first encountered it
running portmanager -u and didn't realize for a couple of days (and four or
five freeze-ups) what was happening.
This really has become more dramatic:
Usually - when I run a portupgrade - about half of my RAM is used
and I can still work on my Gnome desktop without any swapping or
serious performance losses.
Now every port produces this Max recursion message and
applications become unusable.
Uli.
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* Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany *
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