134419 – emerge mkvtoolnix on amd64 uses up all memory

Bug 134419 - emerge mkvtoolnix on amd64 uses up all memory

Summary: emerge mkvtoolnix on amd64 uses up all memory

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project

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Reported:	2006-05-26 07:18 UTC by Philipp Toelke
Modified:	2006-05-26 07:23 UTC (History)
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Description Philipp Toelke 2006-05-26 07:18:16 UTC

Hi all,

I just tried to emerge mkvtoolnix, and the oom had to come and clean away my window-manager which I found odd, because normally about 700M of my 1G RAM are free.

I have now traced the problem: It was my MAKEOPTS="-j4" (I have a dual-core). With -j1 still much memory is used but not enough to cause problems.

I propose, that the ebuild somehow forces the use of -j1.

Cheers, Philipp

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-26 07:23:31 UTC

Feel free to reopen w/ a patch (not forcing -j1 though). Otherwise, get yourself more memory. :)