Re: SS4 just freezes NetBSD 10

Hi Greg,

Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Even though there is a fair bit of swap free I wouldn't put it past GCC
> to have gobbled that up in the time it takes before top could update the
> counts.  It's already swallowed half what's still free in swap, with
> only about 1/3 of that resident.

Could be that pcre2 is heavy indeed. The machine is a little bit low on 
spec, I have seen userland and newer gcc are "fatter".

>
> It still probably shouldn't have locked up, and there should have been a
> message on the console, but....

Indeed, that's my point. Previously under 9.3 and on my SS10 on 9.4 i do 
get processes killed by out of swap while building. A swap file 
temporarily added then may help out.

>
> Was that building devel/pcre, or devel/pcre2?

devel/pcre2 - it comres through a chain of dependencies from git-base

Take in account that it built all subversion-base related packages.
Also yesterday, I compiled tiff without issues. So the machine appears 
not to be inherently stable, but possibly handles full load badly?

I have an idea... but I will write a separate message about that.

Riccardo