Re: pbulk using tmpfs

[iMil <imil%home.imil.net@localhost>]

>   If you don't limit the space and you run out of memory, the build
> will typically fail due to a tool running out of memory. (On my 2GB
> machine it used to happen when linking parts of qemu, but that doesn't
> happen with recent versions). Back when it used to happen, I could
> recover the space using "make clean". (It used vast amounts of memory
> while trying to link, and that (freed) memory was more than enough fit
> the "make clean" sub-processes).

I've just witnessed it with a couple of packages:

multimedia/vlc:

  CC       input/libvlccore_la-stream_memory.lo
/scratch/multimedia/vlc/work/.wrapper/bin/gcc: Cannot fork
/scratch/multimedia/vlc/work/.wrapper/tmp/logic: Cannot fork
/usr/pkg/bin/libtool: Cannot fork

[...]

multimedia/totem-browser-plugin:

file=`echo es | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && 
/scratch/multimedia/totem-browser-plugin/work/.tools/bin/msgfmt -o $file 
es.po
/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/msgfmt.sh: Cannot fork
gmake[2]: *** [en_CA.gmo] Error 2
gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

[...]

I guess I'm too short in memory to play that game :)

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