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. It still probably shouldn't have locked up, and there should have been a message on the console, but.... Was that building devel/pcre, or devel/pcre2?
I finally managed to fix and attach the external HD and thus add 2GB of swap, overkill, but that was the partition there.
No change, pcre2 will still lock up the SS4 totally.So either the HW brokedown in a way only this package fails (other stuff compiles) or I smell a kernel bug under load.
Stop-A doesn't get into monitor, so it is fairly bad. I'll see if i can find some more RAM. Riccardo