On 11.07.2018 09:09, Simon Burge wrote: > Hi folks, > > Martin Husemann wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:11:41PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>> After the switch from NetBSD-HEAD (version from 1 year ago) to 8.0RC2, >>> the ld(1) linker has serious issues with linking Clang/LLVM single >>> libraries within 20 minutes. This causes frequent timeouts on the NetBSD >>> buildbot in the LLVM buildfarm. Timeouts were never observed in the >>> past, today there might be few of them daily. >> >> Sounds like a binutils issue (or something like too little RAM available >> on the machine). > > Probably only tangently related, but I wasn't able to link an amd64 > GENERIC kernel on a machine with 512MB of RAM, and even using "MKCTF=no > NOCTF=yes" at least got something build but was extraordinarily slow to > do so. I never worried about raising a PR for that as I figured the > world had moved on... > > Cheers, > Simon. > There is certainly contribution to excessive RAM usage.. but I must defer myself profiling tasks and focus on other things now. It's better to focus on lld porting myself (10x boost compared to ld in larger C++ codebase) before profiling. Additionally that LLVM build machine is a remote machine and is serving public service.
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