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

[Mike Hunter]

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?

Thanks for any help,

Mike