On 2014-06-11 18:36, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I use my boxes for daily work and in most cases, the usage of applications is > the same. > Compiling the OS and updating ports while having claws-mail and firefox > opened is some > usual scenario. > > I realise since a couple of weeks, if not months now, but always sticky to > 11.0-CURRENT, > that the system is even with 8 GB RAM very quickly out of memory and > swapping. As of > today - updating CURRENT (buildword) and also updating ports. Nothing else > except > firefox. And the box is using 1% swapspace. > > It is hard to reproduce or give exact numbers or any more scientific values. > But the way > I do my work is monotonic and it is more than obvious that the box is > swapping much > faster right now than, say, 6 months ago. The problem occurs on different > hardware types, > one box has 8 GB, the other 32GB. > > There are some strange behaviours when compiling ports or the OS itself > sometimes. I very > often linker errors with something like > > [...] relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 [...] > > This strange behaviour sometimes occurs immediately I switched on the box and > start > updating and building world (nothing else done so far) or updating a port. > When this > error occurs, I reboot and do the very same job again - and then suddenly it > works. It > seems I can not reproduce this problem either. It occurs on 11.0-CURRENT > since a couple > of weeks by now and affects different hardware types (as with the unspecific > swapping > experience mentioned above, either 8GB and 32GB, but it occurs on the 8GB > bixes much more > often than on the 32GB system). > > I'm sorry about this unspecific reporting, but since I observe this strange > behaviour but > can not successfully reproduce it by will I suspect something "faulty". I did > already RAM > checks on the systems affected - without any abnormal occurence of memory > faults or so. > > Regards, > oh >
What does 'top' show. It probably holds the answer or top -S -o res -- Allan Jude
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