Memory usage expands until no swap space is left. System Monitor shows 249M of user memory and 329M of swap, which used to be enough. Now it uses it all. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge wine Actual Results: It outputs: ../../tools/winegcc/winegcc -B../../tools/winebuild -mconsole gui.o main.o send.o util.o winetest.exe.dbg.o winetest.res -o winetest.exe.so -L../../dlls -L../../dlls/comctl32 -L../../dlls/user32 -L../../dlls/gdi32 -L../../dlls/wsock32 -lcomctl32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwsock32 -L../../libs/wine -lwine -L../../libs/port -lwine_port then memory expands utill it is killed, or the machine grinds to a halt, with no free memory or swap. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/"PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
do all versions of wine do it or just this one ?
Just this one. At least my previously installed version wine-20050111-r2 builds normally.
Apparently it really does use that much memory. Adding more swap space allowed it to complete.