>Number:         35237
>Category:       port-hp700
>Synopsis:       Intensive compiles (e.g. kernels) result in resource limits being exceeded on hp700
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-hp700-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 12 02:55:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     David H. Gutteridge
>Release:        current/4-BETA
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD arcusiv.nonus-porta.net 4.99.4 NetBSD 4.99.4 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Nov 29 11:10:54 UTC 2006  root@arcusiv.nonus-porta.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/hp700/compile/GENERIC hp700

>Description:
Compiling a kernel or perl (as root) causes resource limits to be
exceeded, I had to use unlimit in csh to get around that.  Apparently this
is not the norm on other ports.  (Certainly I've never seen it on older
branches [1.6.x, 2.x, 3.x] on macppc or i386.)

Here is an example generated by running "make test" in lang/perl5:

ext/threads/t/basic.......................ok
ext/threads/t/end.........................ok
ext/threads/t/join........................FAILED--expected 14 tests, saw 12
ext/threads/t/libc........................Internal error, couldn't set TLS
FAILED--expected 11 tests, saw 0
ext/threads/t/list........................ok
ext/threads/t/problems....................ok
ext/threads/t/stress_cv...................Out of memory!
FAILED--expected 64 tests, saw 33
ext/threads/t/stress_re...................Modification of a read-only value attempted at ../ext/
threads/t/stress_re.t line 45.
FAILED--expected 64 tests, saw 23
ext/threads/t/stress_string...............Out of memory!
FAILED--expected 64 tests, saw 33
ext/threads/t/thread......................Scalars leaked: -2
FAILED--expected 31 tests, saw 14
ext/Time/HiRes/t/HiRes....................ok
ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/fcdc..............ok
ext/Unicode/Normalize/t/form..............ok

This is on a machine with 512MB of RAM.  I don't know about the tests
above specifically, but at other times I've seen these resource limit
errors when there was plenty of free RAM available according to top(1).
>How-To-Repeat:
Try compiling a kernel or lang/perl5 (the latter can build and run
successfully).
>Fix: