Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:26 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:01 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > trying this: > > $ python evil_linker_torture.py 3000 400 200 50 > > running with "make -j4" is going to take a few hours. ok so that did the

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:01 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i'm going to see if i can get above the 4GB mark by modifying the > Makefile to do 3,000 shared libraries instead of 3,000 static object > files. fail. shared libraries link extremely quickly. reverted to static, trying

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
$ python evil_linker_torture.py 3000 100 100 50 ok so that managed to get up to 1.8GB resident memory, paused for a bit, then doubled it to 3.6GB, and a few seconds later successfully outputted a binary. i'm going to see if i can get above the 4GB mark by modifying the Makefile to do 3,000

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:27 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i'm just running the above, will hit "send" now in case i can't hit > ctrl-c in time on the linker phase... goodbye world... :) $ python evil_linker_torture.py 2000 50 100 200 $ make -j8 oh, err... whoopsie... is this

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
$ python evil_linker_torture.py 2000 50 100 200 ok so it's pretty basic, and arguments of "2000 50 10 100" resulted in around a 10-15 second linker phase, which top showed to be getting up to around the 2-3GB resident memory range. "2000 50 100 200" should start to make even a system

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > At some point apps are going to become so insanely large that not even > > disabling debug info will help. > > That's less likely, I'd say. Debug info *is*

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > . > > > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts > > builds. GNU gold instead of

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > . > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts > builds. GNU gold instead of BFD ld was also given a shot. That didn't > work either. Presently, to make things link at

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:28:31AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:46 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > [ Please note the cross-post and respect the Reply-To... ] > > > > Hi folks, > > > > This has taken a while in coming, for which I apologise. There's a lot

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:46 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [ Please note the cross-post and respect the Reply-To... ] > > Hi folks, > > This has taken a while in coming, for which I apologise. There's a lot > of work involved in rebuilding the whole Debian archive, and many many > hours spent

Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and respect the Reply-To... ] Hi folks, This has taken a while in coming, for which I apologise. There's a lot of work involved in rebuilding the whole Debian archive, and many many hours spent analysing the results. You learn quite a lot, too! :-) I promised way