My system is swapping. I have a load average of more than 1000. I see a lot of nc-config and ncxx4-config processes. root@dog:/root(3)# ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 13596 135960 1114867 root@dog:/root(4)# genlop -c ; killall -9 nc-config I try to kill all emerge processes: dog ~ # kill 32386 dog ~ # ps -ef | grep emerge root 27228 26776 0 10:43 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto emerge root 32386 32384 0 Oct03 ? 00:00:40 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge --resume --skipfirst dog ~ # kill -9 32386 dog ~ # ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 14910 149100 1222615 dog ~ # time killall -9 nc-config real 0m8.724s user 0m0.084s sys 0m1.768s dog ~ # ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 2305 23050 189005 dog ~ # killall -9 nc-config dog ~ $ ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 13529 135290 1109373 dog ~ # ps -ef | grep ncxx4-config | wc 15083 150830 1266968 'top' shows: top - 15:12:27 up 6 days, 20:12, 4 users, load average: 7.09, 372.68, 2956.13 Tasks: 26087 total, 8 running, 26079 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 4.7 us, 89.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.7 id, 4.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 4055104 total, 4018220 used, 36884 free, 11748 buffers KiB Swap: 16777208 total, 14232132 used, 2545076 free, 5948 cached and something later: top - 15:38:19 up 6 days, 20:38, 4 users, load average: 3233.14, 6906.50, 8087.70 Tasks: 26106 total, 4 running, 15870 sleeping, 0 stopped, 10232 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.6 us, 3.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 95.7 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 4055104 total, 3518716 used, 536388 free, 11492 buffers KiB Swap: 16777208 total, 1395248 used, 15381960 free, 13804 cached It looks, if I am not able to kill the nc-config processes, or they are created faster than I can kill them. dog ~ # nohup killall -9 ncxx4-config & rose@dog ~ $ ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 7987 79870 654929 Croot@dog:/root(1)# ps -ef | grep ncxx4-config | wc 7985 79850 670736 root@dog:/root(2)# >nohup.out ; nohup killall -9 ncxx4-config & [1] 28979 rose@dog ~ $ ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 1885 18850 154565 rose@dog ~ $ ps -ef | grep nc-config | wc 12593 125930 1032621 So I deleted and masked netcdf. Any idea what could be the reason. rose@dog ~ $ genlop -t netcdf * sci-libs/netcdf Fri May 4 23:15:32 2012 >>> sci-libs/netcdf-4.2 merge time: 39 seconds. Fri Aug 3 07:30:11 2012 >>> sci-libs/netcdf-4.2.1 merge time: 41 seconds. Fri Aug 10 09:30:13 2012 >>> sci-libs/netcdf-4.2.1.1 merge time: 40 seconds. Fri Sep 27 00:53:28 2013 >>> sci-libs/netcdf-4.3.0 merge time: 58 seconds. root@dog:/root(6)# emerge -pvD sci-libs/netcdf These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sci-libs/netcdf-4.3.0 USE="dap doc examples hdf hdf5 mpi szip tools -static-libs {-test}" 4,625 kB root@dog:/root(7)# emerge --info Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.11.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.11.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E7300_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 4055104 total, 3384528 free KiB Swap: 16777208 total, 16726364 free Timestamp of tree: Unknown ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r2, 3.2.5-r2, 3.3.2-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.4, 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.11 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo science sunrise voyageur x-portage g-cpan g-octave ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL Intel-SDP dlj-1.1 skype-eula skype-4.0.0.7-copyright googleearth AdobeFlash-11.x cadsoft Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE MakeMKV-EULA NVIDIA-CUDA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage_dog" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/voyageur /usr/local/portage /var/lib/cpan /var/lib/g-octave" USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 ao apache2 apng applet archive armadillo arpack asf aspell atlas audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion berkdb blas blast bluetooth bluray boost bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cgi chm cli cmake consolekit cracklib crypt css cuda cups curl cxx daap db dbi dbm dbus declarative designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia dirac djvu doc dot dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds egl elf emacs emboss emf encode epiphany evo examples exif expat extensions extra extras faac faad ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fortran95 fpm fpx fuse g3dvl gcj gd gdal gdbm gdu gedit geoip geolocation geos gfortran gif gimp git glade glib glpk gml gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gold gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtk3 gudev guile hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri html http httpd hvm hwdb iconv icq icu id3 id3tag ide imagemagick imap inotify introspection ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kate kdepim kdrive kerberos keymap kpathsea kvm ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap lensfun libffi libkms libnotify libsamplerate lirc live lm_sensors lua lzma lzo mad mail maildir mapnik math matroska matrox media-library mercurial mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod modules mono motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp mudflap multilib multimedia musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses netcdf netpbm network networking nfs nls nntp nptl nsplugin ntfs ntp numpy nvidia obex objc ocaml ocr octave odbc ofa ogdi ogg openexr opengl openmp openvg pae pam pango pcre pda pdf perl plasma plotutils plugins png podcast policykit portaudio posix postgres postscript ppds preview-latex proj projectm projectx pstricks pulseaudio python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline reiserfs reports rhythmbox rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool sage samba sasl schroedinger science sdk sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session shout sip slang slp smart smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soap sockets sound soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 stlport subtitles subversion sudo suexec svg svm swig systemd szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs tgif theora thesaurus threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tools truetype udev udisks unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l vaapi vala valgrind vdpau video virt-network virtualbox visio vorbis vpx wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi win32codecs wmf wxwidgets x264 xa xattr xcb xemacs xetex xext xft xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xpm xv xvid xvmc yaml youtube zlib zvbi" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_core authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_core authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info lbmethod_byrequests log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif slotmem_shm so socache_shmcb speling status unique_id unixd userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon fuji ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="nss" DRACUT_MODULES="caps lvm mdraid syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de fr ru" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler ruby websvccommon xml" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
Is this a regression? Which version worked last? Which version broke it?
(In reply to Tom Wijsman (TomWij) from comment #1) > Is this a regression? Which version worked last? Which version broke it? I still not really know. The same system was also in the past often not responsive. And I had to reboot the system rather often. On my other systems only netcdf-4.1.3 is installed. So I will test "dog" now completely with netcdf, then I can mask >netcdf-4.1.3 and can test with netcdf-4.1.3. And then again with netcdf-4.3.0.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 456916 ***
