urp...@gmx.com wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: >> On Friday, 19 June 2020 16:35:27 BST urp...@gmx.com wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:45:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: >>>> Jack wrote: >>>>> Not far enough back. You need to show the actual error, not the line >>>>> "Error1:" which gets printed after the error. >>>> And depending on the number of cores/threads and other emerge settings, >>>> it can be a dozen, two dozen lines or sometimes even further back than >>>> that. With CPUs having a dozen or so cores/threads, it's amazing that >>>> some stuff compiles at all. Prime example, recent thread about Pam >>>> updates. >>>> >>>> OP, if needed, tar the whole error log and attach it. Just don't post >>>> it elsewhere and link to it tho. After a while, it's gone or a person >>>> finds the log but not this thread with the solution. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-) :-) >>> Ah ha. Yes Thank you. Sorry, I've never been good with e-mail:-P >> >> NP, did you get an OOM error in dmesg when this happened by any chance? You >> don't seem to have much RAM, you have no swap and the number of jobs is >> relatively high for memory hungry compiles. >> >> It could be a bug, but unless a report has been filed already in BGO to this >> effect, I suggest you add a swapfile, enable it, and try again with >> MAKEOPTS="-j1" or "-j2". Please ask if you need more detail. > > I was thinking about -j1. I tried -j4. I thought I didn't need swap with >=4GB > of RAM, but it makes sense. My machine kinda crawls trying to build that > package. Oh man, I'll have to re-partition:-( > >
Create a swap file. I'm not sure about the speed compared to a swap partition but if you have room somewhere, no need to repartition. I might add, 4GBs is not much nowadays. When I had 16GBs before my upgrade to 32GBs, I'd sometimes run out of memory. Of course, I have portage's work directory on tmpfs but the bigger stuff was on hard drives still. Some packages need a lot of memory. Even with 32GBs, I still have some compile on hard drive and it uses a lot of memory just for the processes themselves. The more jobs, the more it uses. I still have a large swap partition even with 32GBs. If LOo, Firefox and a couple others hit at the same time, it uses swap at times. Just something to think on. Dale :-) :-)
