On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running with full system FEATURES="test" on, and I have a couple of > programs that depended on dev-libs/boost. The boost testsuite always > fails in my computer due to insufficient disk space, I usually simply > skip the test for boost and just go on with the merge. But today, I > decided to let the testsuite run to completion; so in preparation for > that, I plugged in an external harddisk and made it so that > /var/tmp/portage points to an empty disk image in the external harddrive. > > This setup works ok, and the testsuite is still running, however I saw > now that the disk image's is now taking ~18 GB (and counting) while "du > -sh" on /var/tmp/portage counted ~13GB. > > So, the question is, has anyone successfully compiled and run > FEATURES="test" on boost and knows how much space the tests eat up in > the end? > > I am suspecting of the possibility that maybe a testsuite gets into an > infinite loop while writing a file or something constantly eats up > diskspace. Or is it just that boost has an outrageously too extensive > testsuite and it will turn out ok if I just left it to run.
I'm trying it now, I have 64gb free in /var/tmp so I hope that's enough... :)
