Re: Too many pythons in poudriere

On 2021-Jul-8, at 15:47, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Tatsuki Makino <tatsuki_makino_at_hotmail.com> wrote on
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 05:59:52 +0900 :
> 
>> bob prohaska wrote on 2021/07/09 02:54:
>>> Started a new swaplog:
>> 
>> Connect a USB mass storage device that you have no use for.
>> Mount the file system in it.
>> Create a file in that file system like dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/somefile.
>> Attach it to the memory disk like mdconfig /mnt/somefile.
>> Add it to the swap.
> 
> Bob already has the swap space:
> 
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/da0s2b       1843200    26944  1816256     1%
> /dev/mmcsd0s2b    1843200    26956  1816244     1%
> Total             3686400    53900  3632500     1%
> 
> This is nearly as much as is allowed

I should have said something like "on a 1 GiByte RAM machine"
here in the sentence that I've split with this note.

> without getting
> swapon-time-frame notices of the form:
> 
> warning: total configured swap (??? pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (??? pages).
> 
> Bob may be stuck with a choice among:
> 
> A) running the RPi3B (1 GiByte RAM) mistuned such that
>   the above messages are reported (or adjusting other
>   kernel tradeoffs explicitly to avoid the message)
> vs.
> B) building www/chromium on another machine that has
>   more RAM then installing the package built on the
>   RPi3B for later use
> vs.
> C) giving up on building www/chromium at all, using a
>   pre-built package
> vs.
> D) giving up on even using www/chromium on the RPi3B.
> 
> Bob is familiar with doing (A). I'm the one that
> requested that he try not doing so as part of trying
> to isolate a problem building devel/llvm10 . That
> problem was later identified to be a different issue.
> (A) does make other kernel resource tradeoffs,
> either implicitly or explicitly. I do not know how
> to well manage the tradeoffs involved so I never
> recommend (A). Others may know what they are doing
> for making such tradeoffs.
> 
> However, even if Bob does (A) there may be other issues
> that he will run into. Form build attempt to build
> attempt he is having problems leading to massive swap
> space usage at differing points in the build. The same
> step sometimes works fine and other times fails. This
> suggests another issue may be present (racy leak?).
> 
>> Ask Mark to explain the details to you :)
> 
> 
> I would never recommend using files for swap space on
> FreeBSD, only swap partitions. See comments 7 and 8 of:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206048
> 
> for notes from Konstantin Belousov that lead me to
> not do so. (8 is a reference to other material.)
> 



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