I don't think the problem is with the build itself. Several developers do this on their Windows and Linux desktops without issues, and my jenkins server (linux) builds every few minutes without showing this problem. I'm pretty sure it's a configuration or other problem with my desktop.
It's not thrashing. I have 12 GB of RAM, and I do have 5MB of swap used after 38 days of uptime, but that doesn't change during the build. The build process(es) do use a lot of CPU during normal building and while they're apparently "hung." I've tried to look for hardware errors, but there's nothing in dmesg and smartctl says: Device does not support SMART Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging I'm about to un-install kmod-catalyst (from rpmfusion) because that is the biggest thing that''s changed since I was successfully building on this desktop a few weeks (months?) ago. When I can kill the hung java process, everything seems to recover almost immediately. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
