On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 09:36 +0100, Steffen Sledz wrote: > On 15.12.2014 17:19, Enrico Scholz wrote: > > Steffen Sledz <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> The first thing we observed was that the do_rootfs stage made a very > >> big load (more than 500) on the machine but the cpu's aren't working > >> for 100%. I could track down the problem to the call > >> ... > >> which eats swap space without end till the system crashes (more than 100GB > >> swap space ist available). > >> > >> I've no idea how to inspect this problem further. Any ideas? > > > > I had a similar issue when /var/tmp in the rootfs was an absolute symlink > > pointing to toplevel /var/tmp which contained some millions of files. > > > > Can you look (lsof) which files are open by qemu? > > Crazy! This really seems to be the problem. > > I had a big subtree from earlier local openSUSE Build Service runs below > toplevel /var/run. After deleting this the build succeeds. > > But manually deleting such files before running OE builds cannot really be a > reasonable solution. :(
Agreed, we need to figure out which tool is suffering issues with circular symlinks, then fix that tool. Its not so much a problem with the core build system as the tools we're using though :( Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
