On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 23:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2018-06-29 21:29, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > Has there been any attempt to diagnose the hang? If so, does it seem > > to be due to memory exhaustion and extreme swapping, or a software bug, > > or some other cause? Why hasn't it happened when building earlier > > versions? > > Yes, attempted has been made, but it's something difficult to diagnose, > the machine becoming unresponsive. make seems to leave many processes > hanging, causing extreme swapping, which doesn't work well on the > Octeons which swap over NFS. It seems to work fine on the Octeons which > swap over NFS.
Swap over NFS is supposed to work since a few years ago, but I have my doubts. It is definitely a fragile feature. [...] > > If it's memory exhaustion, are linux and other large packages being > > blacklisted for these build hosts? > > In the meantime, I have blacklisted linux on the Octeons swapping over > NFS. It should therefore build fine. Thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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