On 15.12.2014 17:19, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Steffen Sledz <sledz-mqby8sqgergrvmum7q6...@public.gmane.org> writes: > >> The first thing we observed was that the do_rootfs stage made a very >> big load (more than 500) on the machine but the cpu's aren't working >> for 100%. I could track down the problem to the call >> ... >> which eats swap space without end till the system crashes (more than 100GB >> swap space ist available). >> >> I've no idea how to inspect this problem further. Any ideas? > > I had a similar issue when /var/tmp in the rootfs was an absolute symlink > pointing to toplevel /var/tmp which contained some millions of files. > > Can you look (lsof) which files are open by qemu?
Crazy! This really seems to be the problem. I had a big subtree from earlier local openSUSE Build Service runs below toplevel /var/run. After deleting this the build succeeds. But manually deleting such files before running OE builds cannot really be a reasonable solution. :( -- DResearch Fahrzeugelektronik GmbH Otto-Schmirgal-Str. 3, 10319 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 515932-237 mailto:sl...@dresearch-fe.de Fax: +49 30 515932-299 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Weber, Werner Mögle; Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg; HRB 130120 B; Ust.-IDNr. DE273952058 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core