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Re: linux/unstable failing to build on mips

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On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 23:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2018-06-29 21:29, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > Has there been any attempt to diagnose the hang?  If so, does it seem
> > to be due to memory exhaustion and extreme swapping, or a software bug,
> > or some other cause?  Why hasn't it happened when building earlier
> > versions?
> 
> Yes, attempted has been made, but it's something difficult to diagnose,
> the machine becoming unresponsive. make seems to leave many processes
> hanging, causing extreme swapping, which doesn't work well on the
> Octeons which swap over NFS. It seems to work fine on the Octeons which
> swap over NFS.

Swap over NFS is supposed to work since a few years ago, but I have my
doubts.  It is definitely a fragile feature.

[...]
> > If it's memory exhaustion, are linux and other large packages being
> > blacklisted for these build hosts?
> 
> In the meantime, I have blacklisted linux on the Octeons swapping over
> NFS. It should therefore build fine.

Thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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linux/unstable failing to build on mips Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-06-29 22:30 +0200
  Re: linux/unstable failing to build on mips Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> - 2018-06-29 23:30 +0200
    Re: linux/unstable failing to build on mips Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-06-30 00:10 +0200

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