On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:19:55PM -0500, Dale wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: > >> On Friday, 19 June 2020 16:35:27 BST [email protected] 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 > > :-) :-)
Yep. I'm thinkin on that. Thank you
