[9.2-STABLE/CLANG 3.3|3.4] x11/kdelibs4

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> writes:

>> The box in question is a Dell Latitude E6510 notebook with only 4 GB of RAM, could this
>> be the issue? The system very often starts swapping. Even my oldstyle E8400 workstation
>> with only 8 GB (most recent 11.0-CURRENT) starts swapping very often and recently, I saw
>> musterious compiler erros and stopping compiling processes never seen bevor. Restarting
>> the failed portbuild most often finish successfully.
>
> There were some postings recently, about newer versions of FreeBSD being
> supposedly more "swappy", see e.g.:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-April/thread.html#78361
>
> I have no idea if this is really substantiated with evidence, or just a
> feeling, though. :)
>
> In any case, when you are experiencing mysterious compiler errors, and
> your system is heavily exercising RAM and swap, it is always a good idea
> to do a full hardware diagnostics test.
>
> For your RAM, you can use memtest86+, and since you have a Dell, you can
> use their diagnostics program to test other parts of the machine.

For what it's worth, ports/187150 might be related to this as well (I've
never experienced those problems myself, but I'm on HEAD).