On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 18:58 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Michael Sullivan writes: > > > I see those lines in /var/log/messages on the fast machine: > > > > carter ~ # grep dcc_job_summary /var/log/* > > grep: /var/log/mailman: No such file or directory > > /var/log/messages:Oct 17 09:09:31 carter distccd[16791]: > > (dcc_job_summary) client: 192.168.1.4:51319 COMPILE_OK exit:0 sig:0 > > Looks good. > > > > but I'm still seeing problems on the slow machine: > > > > libtool: compile: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 > > -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_LOCALE_H=1 > > -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_STDARG=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 > > -DHAVE_SETLOCALE=1 -DHAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY=1 -DHAVE_LONG_LONG=1 > > -DHAVE_INTMAX_T=1 -DMPFR_HAVE_FESETROUND=1 -DHAVE_DENORMS=1 > > -DHAVE_FLOOR=1 -DHAVE_CEIL=1 -DHAVE_LDOUBLE_IEEE_EXT_LITTLE=1 > > -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -DHAVE_ATTRIBUTE_MODE=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -I. -O2 > > -march=i686 -ffloat-store -MT eint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/eint.Tpo -c > > eint.c -o eint.o >/dev/null 2>&1 > > make[1]: *** [exp3.lo] Killed > > make[1]: *** [exp.lo] Killed > > make[1]: *** [frac.lo] Killed > > make[1]: *** [get_d.lo] Killed > > make[1]: *** [get_exp.lo] Killed > > make[1]: *** [get_str.lo] Killed > > > > Processes are being killed because the slow machine simply does not have > > enough RAM to do what it's trying to do. Can I do anything about this > > beyond expanding the RAM? I'd like to finish this sometime this century, > > but processes keep getting killed. I shut down xdm before I started the > > emerge... > > What about adding swap space? > > Wonko >
The problem is this: The machine only has one hard drive, and frequently we have to reboot it because the hard drive gets locked up trying to write and read from swap space...
