Bug 254126

Summary:	dev-libs/boost Denial of Service while compiling
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	C++ Team [disbanded] <cpp+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Caleb Cushing 2009-01-07 17:36:42 UTC

I don't know why, don't care but every time I build boost, with MAKEOPTS="-j4" my system stutters while it chews up cpu, IO, and probably, memory/swap.

with 2G of ram, and a quad core processor this shouldn't happen, it's worse than OOo.

I'm recommending setting MAKEOPTS="-j1" within the ebuild, no other package on my system causes this problem when building, during a full system rebuild.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Caleb Cushing 2009-01-07 17:37:26 UTC

Created attachment 177695 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 2 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-07 21:07:20 UTC

I'm sorry, but this is complete nonsense.
It's not boost's fault. Boost makes heavy use of C++ templates and that eats all your RAM when compiling. Furthermore, 2GB RAM with a Quad Core is just nonsense, sorry.