Re: toolchain/41752 (gcc crashes compiling ImageMagick wand/convert.c)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/41752; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/41752 (gcc crashes compiling ImageMagick
        wand/convert.c)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:45:22 +0000

 On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:40:04PM +0000, Yves Lambert wrote:
  > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 07:27:43AM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost 
wrote:
  >> [...]
  >  > I just compiled ImageMagick on 5.0_STABLE and it had no trouble. Are you
  >  > running out of swap?
  >  
  >  Currently testing
  >  ...
  >  
  >  Yes. I am running out of swap: I see it in console (and I know why).
  >  [...]
  >  
  >  Thank you for support and sorry for reporting a non-bug. i
  >  I have some free space in /dev/wd1a. Will this help if I build
  >  another swap?
 
 Any additional swap will help, some, but probably you need either more
 RAM or to reduce the load on the machine. :-|
 
  >  I don't know how to check physical RAM size without rebooting the machine. 
 
 Easiest way is to look in /var/run/dmesg.boot.
 
  >  It seems that it is 48M I  need some RAM for this machinea anyhow. For now,
  >  as a first measure, I am going to shutdown X server while the machine is 
  >  compiling.
 
 That will help a lot.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost