Re: System freeze while compiling

2019-09-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
en compiling a SW the > system > > simply hangs and I need to cut powerTested on both Stretch and Buster. Same > > issue, the compiler makes the system freeze > > Is there a way to avoid this in order to understand what is the issue? > Some other options, on the assum

Re: System freeze while compiling

2019-09-14 Thread Matthew Fernandez
> On Sep 14, 2019, at 14:35, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 12:58 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 10:55:11AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: >>> Actually I'm very surprised that a user space program (compiler) running on >>> an >>> unprevileged account

Re: System freeze while compiling

2019-09-14 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 16:20 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > Are you running out of memory? I don't think, I have 16GiB memory and double of it for a swap partition. > The linking step of a build can use large amounts of memory (>100x more than > the final binary size). Running out of RAM often c

Re: System freeze while compiling

2019-09-14 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 12:58 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 10:55:11AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > Hello All,I have a small Issue with Debian system freezing when compiling a > > SW the systemsimply hangs and I need to cut powerTested on both Stretch and > > Buster. Sa

Re: System freeze while compiling

2019-09-14 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Are you running out of memory? The linking step of a build can use large amounts of memory (>100x more than the final binary size). Running out of RAM often causes a (near-)hang not a crash, even without swap. To check, try running the compile with a system monitor (e.g. gnome-system-monito

Re: System freeze

2019-09-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 10:55:11AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > I have a small Issue with Debian system freezing when compiling a SW the > system > simply hangs and I need to cut powerTested on both Stretch and Buster. Same > issue, the compiler makes the system freeze > Is

Re: System freeze while compiling

2019-09-14 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 10:55:11AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Hello All, > I have a small Issue with Debian system freezing when compiling a SW the > system > simply hangs and I need to cut powerTested on both Stretch and Buster. Same > issue, the compiler makes the system fr

System freeze

2019-09-14 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Hello All, I have a small Issue with Debian system freezing when compiling a SW the system simply hangs and I need to cut powerTested on both Stretch and Buster. Same issue, the compiler makes the system freeze Is there a way to avoid this in order to understand what is the issue? Actually I&#