Bug 190903

Summary:	freezes when compiling applications
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benzakhar <benzakhar>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benzakhar 2007-08-31 20:29:44 UTC

After an emerge --sync many packages (the ones that are more complicated) "freeze" I don't know if its an actual freeze or simply a huge slowdown where the mouse becomes very jittery. Eventually freezes.

One of such packages is mysql, DBD-mysql for perl,

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mysql
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
everything works fine. Eventually during compiling (about 20minutes in) mouse becomes jittery and the entire machine slowly starts to slow down to a gradual freeze.

Expected Results:  
get mysql

I don't know if this will work for mysql since I have went through other means of getting it. 

Going to /etc/make.conf

MAKE_OPTIONS="-j3" 
changed to
MAKE_OPTIONS=""

which seemed to have fixed compiling problems as I was able to install more packages. However haven't tried on the packages that failed before though.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-31 23:42:47 UTC

So type `free` or  `cat /proc/meminfo` when your box is slow, and post the output.