On 17 February 2010 15:56, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: > > Now, I've just had a look in /var/vm . It contains a dozen swapfiles of > 67108864 bytes each, plus a sleepimage file of 2147483648 bytes. I've no > idea whether this is normal or not, though: I've never looked in that > directory before. > > I would watch it while building stuff (and/or us activity monitor or > vm_stat or some other tool to see if the machine was paging itself like > crazy). > Okay, might give that a go. However, ... > > I have 2GB RAM installed and the only other thing running was Firefox 3.6 > (and, while I was seeking help on IRC, Colloquy). > > > > Any ideas about how I should proceed? > > The easiest thing would be to free up some more HD space and just be > patient, some things just take lots of time+hd+memory to build (and while I > don't use boost myself, the impression I've gotten is that it takes quite a > bit to get built). > Is there a command to show which ports depend on boost? The reason I ask is that if the ports that depend on boost are ones I can live without or can find .dmg files for, then I'd prefer to skip boost altogether than to troubleshoot its build process! Thanks again, Sam
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