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.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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