12 Apr
2019
12 Apr
'19
10:25 a.m.
Hi Jeanette,
I notice that the AUR compile seems to go quicker. ... The thing that happens is for the AUR build process to swap massive amounts of data, grinding the system almost to a halt and finally failing without much of a reason. Nothing typically source code or linkage related.
So an AUR build goes quicker, but swaps a lot, and grinds almost to a halt? By quicker, do you mean it makes quicker progress before the swap-grinding occurs?
Any ideas?
Watching `dstat -pcdngsy' would show if many processes are in the run queue, whether it's CPU bound or waiting for I/O, the amount of paging it's doing, and how much swap is used. Is it possible you haven't disabled the `-j', e.g. `MAKEFLAGS' in /etc/makepkg.conf? -- Cheers, Ralph.