Same problem w/ 5.3 (Was: problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1)

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:08:58AM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote:
> On Dec 07, "To Mike Jakubik" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On Dec 07, "Mike Jakubik" wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just
> > > > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks :)
> > > 
> > > Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release version)? If
> > > this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you install 5.3 instead. Perl
> > > 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too.
> > 
> > Actually I did 5.2.1 because that was the install media I had handy :)
> > I'm building a RELENG_5 world/kernel as we speak...I'll be back if it
> > doesn't work out :)
> 
> I upgraded to 5.3, but I still am having the same problem:
> 
> #uname -a 
> FreeBSD mybox 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Tue Dec  7 15:35:28 PST 2004     root at mybox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mybox  amd64
> 
> `WITH_GDBM=1 make` works fine, but `make test` still fails.  It hangs for
> a long time on 
> 
> lib/Config................................
> 
> And...and I was going to copy and paste the same error message as I sent
> yesterday, but instead ssh hung up on me, and the console has the
> following bad news:
> 
> swap_pager:  out of swap space
> swap_pager_getwwapspace(16): failed
> ...sshd was killed ...out of swap space
> 
> Top says it was a very big boy indeed while it was running:
> 
> 17771 root     130    0 10732M  2470M CPU0   0  13:41 103.17% 103.17% perl
> 
> I'm willing to do a binary package as a last resort, but I'm planning on
> building code on this box so it'd be better to get this resolved properly
> :)
> 
> I'm going to try changing the perl MALLOC options.  This machine has 8G of
> ram, are there still problems with large memory on amd64?

A fix for mmap's larger then 2GB was committed to HEAD yesterday so it's
possiable that's your issue.

-- Brooks

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