While compiling kmail gcc needs about 1,5 GB of memory - I've got only 1 GB of RAM so you can imagine the swap usage and computer responsiveness... I think this problem is connected with the kmail source code, because I did not observe anything similar with other applications I emerge. I deleted the ebuild and resynced, I also deleted and downloaded again kmail package - it didn't help. gcc-4.1.2 kmail-3.5.7-r2 It reaches 1,5 GB when I see: ... Making all in backends Making all in chiasmus Making all in kpgp Making all in qgpgme Making all in kleo Making all in pics Making all in tests Making all in ui Making all in libkdepim Making all in about Making all in cfgc Making all in icons Making all in interfaces Making all in komposer Making all in core Making all in tests Making all in plugins Making all in default Making all in test Making all in kpartsdesignerplugin Making all in pics Making all in tests Making all in libkpimidentities Making all in korganizer Making all in kmail Making all in interfaces Making all in . creating libkmailpart_la.all_cpp.cpp ... creating libkmailprivate_la.all_cpp.cpp ... configuredialog.cpp: In constructor 'ConfigureDialog::ConfigureDialog(QWidget*, const char*, bool)': configuredialog.cpp:219: warning: '__base_ctor ' is deprecated (declared at /usr/kde/3.5/include/kcmultidialog.h:105) kmfoldertree.cpp: In member function 'virtual void KMFolderTree::contentsDropEvent(QDropEvent*)': kmfoldertree.cpp:1449: warning: 'keyboardModifiers' is deprecated (declared at /usr/kde/3.5/include/kapplication.h:1069) kmfoldermbox.cpp: At global scope: kmfoldermbox.cpp:92: warning: unused parameter 'owner' kmfoldermbox.cpp:259: warning: unused parameter 'owner' kmpopfiltercnfrmdlg.cpp: In constructor 'KMPopHeadersView::KMPopHeadersView(QWidget*, KMPopFilterCnfrmDlg*)': kmpopfiltercnfrmdlg.cpp:33: warning: unused variable 'mDownIndex' kmedit.cpp: At global scope: kmedit.cpp:516: warning: unused parameter 'proc' and I kill it here (can't use the computer :-/ ). Reproducible: Always emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:30:08 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 apache2 automount bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cli config_wizard cpudetection cracklib crypt dbus dga directfb divx djvu dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emerald encode exif extraicons extramodules extras fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gadu gdbm ggi gif glitz gmedia gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal hdaps history iconv ipw4965 isdnlog jabber jack java java5 javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcms libcaca mad midi mmx mng mozbranding mozdevelop mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oracle oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl plugins png ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime rdesktop readline realmedia reflection rtsp samba sdl server session slang smp sms sndfile sound speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sword symlink tcpd tiff tordns truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd voice vorbis wifi wma wmf wmp x264 xanim xine xml xorg xosd xscreensaver xv xvid zip" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
There's a fat EXPERIMENTAL sign attached to the kdeenablefinal use flag. Simply don't use it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154455 ***
