Re: swap space issues

2020-06-29 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/29/20, Mark Millard wrote: > [I'm now subscribed so my messages should go through to > the list.] > > On 2020-Jun-29, at 06:17, Donald Wilde wrote: > >> [adding maintainers of synth and ccache] >> >> On 6/29/20, Mark Millard wrote: >>> Based

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-29 Thread Donald Wilde
[adding maintainers of synth and ccache] On 6/29/20, Mark Millard wrote: > Based on "small arm system" context experiments > mostly . . . > > If your console messasges do not include > messages about "swap_pager_getswapspace(...): failed", > then it is unlikely that being out of swap space > is

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-28 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/28/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > Okay, the post with the attachments was too big, so I canceled it. The > direct copies went out with the archives. > > Here's the one pertinent log file. I'm still examining it. > [snip] Even the log file is too big. Sent the whole thing to the LL

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-28 Thread Donald Wilde
[trimming the direct cc:s] On 6/28/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/28/20, Donald Wilde wrote: >> On 6/27/20, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> On 6/26/20, Ronald Klop wrote: >>>> > [snip] [snip] I should have said that this run was done with 3 and 3 in syn

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-28 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/27/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/26/20, Ronald Klop wrote: >> >> Van: Bob Bishop >> Datum: vrijdag, 26 juni 2020 17:18 >> Aan: Peter Jeremy >> CC: Donald Wilde , freebsd-stable >> >> Onderwerp: Re: swap space issues >>> >&

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-27 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/26/20, Ronald Klop wrote: > > Van: Bob Bishop > Datum: vrijdag, 26 juni 2020 17:18 > Aan: Peter Jeremy > CC: Donald Wilde , freebsd-stable > > Onderwerp: Re: swap space issues >> >> >> >> > On 26 Jun 2020, at 11:23, Peter Jeremy wrote:

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-26 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/26/20, Stefan Eßer wrote: > Am 26.06.20 um 12:23 schrieb Peter Jeremy: >> On 2020-Jun-25 11:30:31 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> Here's 'pstat -s' on the i3 (which registers as cpu HAMMER): [snip] > An idea for a better strategy: > > It might be better to

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-26 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/25/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 19:31:34 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> On 6/25/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote, >>> without trimming: >>> >>>&g

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-26 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/26/20, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2020-Jun-25 11:30:31 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>Here's 'pstat -s' on the i3 (which registers as cpu HAMMER): >> >>Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity >>/dev/ada0s1b 335544320 33554432 0% >>/

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/25/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote, > without trimming: > >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey >> wrote: > >> gpart(8) works just fine on MBR drives and partitions/slices and has a >> much >> friendlier

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/25/20, Paul Mather wrote: > On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:34 PM, Donald Wilde wrote: > > > I think I've missed in this thread where you said which FreeBSD arch you are > running: is it FreeBSD/amd64 or FreeBSD/i386? (With an "old" machine, 4 GB > RAM, and an insta

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/25/20, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 4:42 AM Donald Wilde wrote: > >> On 6/24/20, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey >> > wrote: >> > >> >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-25 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/24/20, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey > wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:34:24 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> > On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>>> All, >>>> >>>>

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/24/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my >>> swap subsystems

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> All, >> >> I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my >> swap subsystems aren't working. I deliberately set up a 40GB >> partitio

Re: swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/24/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > All, > > I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my swap > subsystems aren't working. I deliberately set up a 40GB partition for > swap, and when I do 'top -t' I am only seeing 7906M total. > > When using synth, it sh

swap space issues

2020-06-24 Thread Donald Wilde
All, I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my swap subsystems aren't working. I deliberately set up a 40GB partition for swap, and when I do 'top -t' I am only seeing 7906M total. When using synth, it shows swap usage of < 2%, but then it gives the 'out of swap'

Re: Buildworld and buildkernel with very slow compilation, recently

2020-06-22 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/22/20, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 22.06.2020 3:56, Dimitry Andric wrote: > >> One of the upstream problems is that there is not really any >> authoritative performance regression log being built up, so it is hard >> to see where such regressions were introduced. Somebody then has to >> spend a

Virtual consoles stopped working

2020-06-13 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde wrote: >> From my older thread, "installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails" >> Changing this issue to its own thread. > [snip] >> After quite a few rebuilds from scratch, I now have a 12-STABLE system >&

Re: A system on which GNU-based ports coexist on FreeBSD

2020-06-13 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/13/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > From my older thread, "installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails" > [snip] > After quite a few rebuilds from scratch, I now have a 12-STABLE system > on which synth runs without crashing except that it finds that its > Flavors tree has circu

A system on which GNU-based ports coexist on FreeBSD

2020-06-13 Thread Donald Wilde
>From my older thread, "installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails" > Adding the Synth maintainer, Eric. Eric, this all started when I tried > to update my Handbook to 12-STABLE. Silly me... > > Synth crashed it again, but it didn't kill the machine -- I thought. > It did run out of swap space. I now

Re: question on porting

2020-06-10 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/10/20, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/06/2020 15:51, Donald Wilde wrote: >> Okay, it didn't work, but discovered INDEX-12 in /usr/ports, so >> ' grep gcc INDEX-12 | wc -l ' worked. >> >> Such an interesting file, INDEX-12. More research needed. Is it not >> IN

Re: question on porting

2020-06-10 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/10/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/10/20, Stefan Eßer wrote: >> Am 10.06.20 um 15:45 schrieb Donald Wilde: >>> On 6/10/20, Mark Linimon wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:09:21PM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > [snip] >>>> x3850-1# grep gcc I

Re: question on porting

2020-06-10 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/10/20, Stefan Eßer wrote: > Am 10.06.20 um 15:45 schrieb Donald Wilde: >> On 6/10/20, Mark Linimon wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:09:21PM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: [snip] >>> x3850-1# grep gcc INDEX-13 | wc -l >>> 3848 >>> >&g

Re: question on porting

2020-06-10 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/10/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/10/20, Mark Linimon wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:09:21PM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> (and FreeBSD's port maintainers) reach the point of diminishing >>> returns by supporting GCC >> > > Hi, Mark! LT

Re: question on porting

2020-06-10 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/10/20, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 08:09:21PM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> (and FreeBSD's port maintainers) reach the point of diminishing >> returns by supporting GCC > Hi, Mark! LTNT2! > All you have to do is fix all the ports that have been

Re: question on porting

2020-06-09 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/9/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/9/20, Jonathan Chen wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 15:09, Donald Wilde wrote: [snip] >> No, it doesn't. >> > It's not processor speed that is the problem now, although if I alter > those parameters what is now 11 hours w

Re: question on porting

2020-06-09 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/9/20, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 15:09, Donald Wilde wrote: > [...] >> On the specific synth crash, If I re-run it, does synth have code that >> reorders failed ports such that it has a better chance of not having >> such swap-spac

question on porting

2020-06-09 Thread Donald Wilde
I am running into different problems with 'synth upgrade-system' now, after rebuilding my system yet again to 12-STABLE status. My development mule is an i3 with 4GB of RAM. Specifically, my synth operation ran swap into the ground several times while it was attempting to rebuild both llvm80 and

Re: circular dependency on print/tex-dvipsk

2020-06-06 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/6/20, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 13:38, Donald Wilde wrote: [snip] > Do you have any unusual options in your LiveSystem-make.conf? I'm > using synth as well and I'm not seeing this error in my upgrade-system > builds. > Not that I know of, Jon. never hear

Re: circular dependency on print/tex-dvipsk

2020-06-06 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/6/20, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:38 PM Donald Wilde wrote: > >> I've been doing some more work to get to the bottom of why my synth >> upgrade-system stalled. >> >> Here's the pertinent line, though the whole operation's result is >&

circular dependency on print/tex-dvipsk

2020-06-05 Thread Donald Wilde
I've been doing some more work to get to the bottom of why my synth upgrade-system stalled. Here's the pertinent line, though the whole operation's result is attached. print/tex-dvipsk scan aborted because a circular dependency on print/tex-dvipsk was detected. If I understand this it means

Re: Synth update-system again fails with recursive crash [Was: Re: ]

2020-06-02 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/2/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/2/20, Donald Wilde wrote: >> On 6/2/20, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 05:06-0700, Donald Wilde wrote: [snipped] >>> I ran make -C /usr/ports/print/tex-dvipsk all-depends-list on one of >>> my well-maintain

Re: Synth update-system again fails with recursive crash [Was: Re: ]

2020-06-02 Thread Donald Wilde
On 6/2/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/2/20, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 05:06-0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> > [snipped] >>> I am willing to live without an updated ports tree, but how can I >>> resolve the issue with the Synth repo so I ca

Re: Synth update-system again fails with recursive crash [Was: Re: ]

2020-06-02 Thread Donald Wilde
Interspersed. On 6/2/20, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 05:06-0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > [snipped] >> I am willing to live without an updated ports tree, but how can I >> resolve the issue with the Synth repo so I can use 'pkg install'? I >> only need to i

Synth update-system again fails with recursive crash [Was: Re: ]

2020-06-02 Thread Donald Wilde
sorribouthat! on the lack of a Subject: line in my previous post! My bad. On 6/1/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > Hello, my good friends - > > I hope all are well! > > I did a synth update from my root user on my 12-STABLE system, with > the following results: I pulled down the s

[no subject]

2020-06-01 Thread Donald Wilde
Hello, my good friends - I hope all are well! I did a synth update from my root user on my 12-STABLE system, with the following results: 'portsnap fetch update' succeeded 'synth upgrade-system' failed. I ran it again, capturing the output: As I said on -questions, I manually did 'pkg install

Re: incorrect installation

2020-06-01 Thread Donald Wilde
> 21.05.2020 8:23, Donald Wilde wrote: > > The installation -- whole disk, AUTO, GPT, all options selected -- Thank you, Eugene -- > > > It seems your BIOS does not boot OS from GPT normally. > > > Try using MBR partitioning instead with Legacy mode. Yes, that

Re: crash while building libunbound.so on 12-STABLE

2020-05-24 Thread Donald Wilde
On 5/24/20, Donald Wilde wrote: > I will, guys, thanks for the pointer. I didn't look hard enough! >8^O > Successful. That (contrib) next to the filter should have been a bright red flag for me, but I'd forgotten. Thanks, Beasties! --

Re: crash while building libunbound.so on 12-STABLE

2020-05-24 Thread Donald Wilde
I will, guys, thanks for the pointer. I didn't look hard enough! >8^O -- Don Wilde * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? *

crash while building libunbound.so on 12-STABLE

2020-05-24 Thread Donald Wilde
Hello, all - Let's see if I can report this adequately enough. The macro-task I am attempting to accomplish is to update my (English) FreeBSD Handbook to 12-STABLE from the ports collection asextracted 2020-05-23. The actual failure in creating libunbound.so is that the command to compile

incorrect installation

2020-05-20 Thread Donald Wilde
Hello, good Beasties - It is my pleasure to be back! Please pardon my direct usage of -STABLE instead of -questions, but I remember the deluge that -questions brought to my in-box... ;-) I am trying to re-establish a FreeBSD presence on my servers and I am having problems installing it on my