Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Dec 6 23:35:16 UTC 2017
On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Jan Bramkamp wrote:
> Synth and poudriere are parallel build tools and as such are very taxing
> on the system. I suspect your system is unstable under such load,
> because of a configuration error or unreliable hardware. One such
> configuration error that bit me is tmpfs mounted without size
> limitation. Without size limits it can exhaust RAM + swap and crash the
> system. Limit the sum of all your tmpfs mounts to significantly less
> than RAM + swap.
What happens then? Does the build process merely crash instead? I ask
because my minimal system (all I can afford on my "income") has 512MB
memory (all it will take) ad 1GB swap; building Ruby etc kills it, so I
use packages in that case i.e. no customisation if I wanted it.
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