On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 06:08:49PM +0100, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 19 June 2020 17:10:54 BST urp...@gmx.com wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > NP, did you get an OOM error in dmesg when this happened by any chance? > > > You don't seem to have much RAM, you have no swap and the number of jobs > > > is relatively high for memory hungry compiles. > > > > > > It could be a bug, but unless a report has been filed already in BGO to > > > this effect, I suggest you add a swapfile, enable it, and try again with > > > MAKEOPTS="-j1" or "-j2". Please ask if you need more detail. > > > > I was thinking about -j1. I tried -j4. I thought I didn't need swap with > > >=4GB of RAM, but it makes sense. My machine kinda crawls trying to build > > that package. Oh man, I'll have to re-partition:-( > > A single compile job on a big package can eat >3G of RAM. I don't know what > spidermonkey jobs may grow up to, but drop it down to '-j1' and see what you > get. > > A swapfile which you enable on a per ebuild basis if required, can be handy. > You can configure this in a package.profile file. On an ext4 fs you could do > this as root: > > touch swapfile > dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=4096 count=400000 > mkswap -L Swappage swapfile > swapon swapfile > > If it is a btrfs you'll need to tweak things to be able to used it as a swap: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file
Wow. Thanks Micheal. That's really cool. I will try that.
