On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 08:56:52AM +1000, urp...@gmx.com wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 06:08:49PM +0100, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 19 June 2020 17:10:54 BST urp...@gmx.com wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > > > 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:-( > > > > A single compile job on a big package can eat >3G of RAM. I don't know what > > spidermonkey jobs may grow up to, but drop it down to '-j1' and see what you > > get. > > > > A swapfile which you enable on a per ebuild basis if required, can be handy. > > You can configure this in a package.profile file. On an ext4 fs you could do > > this as root: > > > > touch swapfile > > dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=4096 count=400000 > > mkswap -L Swappage swapfile > > swapon swapfile > > > > If it is a btrfs you'll need to tweak things to be able to used it as a > > swap: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file > > Wow. Thanks Micheal. That's really cool. I will try that. > I tried to merge the package again with -j1, just to see, but no go. Making a swap file just as Micheal said did the trick. Thanks a bunch. I made it in /home. Is that a bad idea? I guess I need to review my partion scheme. Thanks everyuone, it's great to be back on Gentoo again
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