Bug 160981

Summary:	sys-devel/distcc fails with remote host OOM error
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Buell <alex.buell>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) <lisa>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex Buell 2007-01-08 20:09:55 UTC

distcc fails with OOM error; should be able to retry operation with another host. 


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Needs GCC to run out of memory when running on a distcc farm. 

Actual Results:  
When OOM happens, emerge via distcc fails. This can result in a huge amount of time wasted when building large applications such as OpenOffice. 

Expected Results:  
It should have tried again on a different distcc server.

Comment 1 Alex Buell 2007-01-08 20:11:24 UTC

There is a patch floating around on the 'net that fixes this. See:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2004q3/002440.html

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-08 21:48:01 UTC

Well, running out of memory to the extent that OOM is in action is really not a distcc bug. Also, there's no patch at the link you've posted.

Comment 3 Alex Buell 2007-01-08 21:59:45 UTC

Sorry, I must have input the wrong URL! The patch is contained within the URL as below:

http://www.mail-archive.com/distcc@lists.samba.org/msg02174.html

Thanks.

Comment 4 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-09 18:27:14 UTC

That patch is 2.5 years old.

This is also an upstream issue and not a Gentoo specific problem. We can't make your volunteer machines get more memory.