Alexey Eschenko <skobkin...@ya.ru> writes:

> Hi.
>
> For some time I have problems with dev-qt/qtwebengine (at least 5.12.3) 
> build. As far as I can see it fails to build due to memory exhaustion. 
> Although I have 32 GB of RAM (at least 20 of them is almost always free) 
> looks like it's not enough. It's strange because I have
> no problems with Firefox/Chromium/Libreoffice builds.
>
> The build ends with full (32GB/32GB) memory usage and significant system lag 
> (mouse/keyboard input, output, video and sound is freezing for ~10+ seconds) 
> every time and then Portage is marking it as failed with something like this 
> in the end of the logs:
> https://cp.skobk.in/2096/ae027ec300f014f6
>
> Also I have something like this in the kernel log:
>
> Jun 13 12:42:24 skobkin-pc kernel: 
> oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-1.scope,task=cc1plus,pid=39585,uid=250
> Jun 13 12:42:24 skobkin-pc kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 39585 
> (cc1plus) total-vm:1715764kB, anon-rss:1615872kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
> Jun 13 12:42:24 skobkin-pc kernel: oom_reaper: reaped process 39585 
> (cc1plus), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
>
> It's the first time when I encountered a problem like this on my system and 
> now I'm thinking how to deal with it. Has anyone dealt with this? Is there 
> any solutions other than buying more RAM  (I don't need more RAM for my 
> work/entertainment right now)?
>  
> Thanks in advance.

I can't really help with the problem, but I've built the same package
recently with just 4GB of RAM. (It takes a long time.) So most likely
it's something in your portage settings that's causing this.

- Lasse

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