Same problem w/ 6.0 (Was: problems compiling perl 5.8.5 w/ fbsd 5.2.1)

[Mike Hunter]

On Dec 08, "To Mike Jakubik" wrote:

> 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?

More bad news:  It's still doing the same thing :(

12400 root     118    0  2871M  2698M CPU0   1   3:02 98.94% 98.93% perl

uname -a

FreeBSD mybox 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Dec  9 12:09:07 PST 2004     root at mybox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mybox  amd64

I'm ready to help; any guidance?

Thanks,

Mike