On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 10:49:27AM +0100, Mick wrote > Some ebuilds, I have chromium in mind here, can chew up all your > RAM and then start thrashing swap continuously. To make matters > worse in pre-empting this, they only do it for a few versions, then > revert to better managed memory usage. On a box with 4G RAM I set > MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l2" for such troublesome packages and swap usage is > kept within normal limits.
I just tried with MAKEOPTS="-j1" and got the same failure output at the same place. I normally run with the number equal to the number of cores. On this notebook MAKEOPTS="-j2". Are there any other memory-conserving tweaks available? > I think the message "[drm] HPD interrupt storm" refers to some old > kernel bug, but it could be a regression. Which kernel are you using? 4.14.61-gentoo [thimk][root][~] uname -a Linux thimk 4.14.61-gentoo #3 SMP Fri Aug 17 04:14:29 EDT 2018 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
