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przemoli

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Registered: 2013-04-14

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Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

0) By "freeze" I mean, very very very long reaction time. Mouse may move by milimiters from time to time, and sometimes I get lagging reaction to keystrokes (like showing yakuake). And its INSTANT. One moment everything work reasonably, in the other all symptoms are present, and system is unresponsive.
1) I run into this problem with AUR packages firefox-kde-opensuse and linux-git (both compile heavy..)
2) I have changed makepkg BUILD DIR into /opt/tmp (with apropriate permissions) as to avoid running into problems with tmpfs residing in ram. (That was proposed as solution on Yaourt wiki)
3) No metter what method I use (aur helper: yaourt aura pacaur; manual makepkg), problem persis.
4) It seam that I get this freezing on same files that are compiled.
5) After I changed BUILD DIR i have succesfully compiled firefox-kde-opensuse twice. However I was not present during compilation, and didn't fill in sudo password. THIRD time I seen problems as usual.
6) Samll packaged like cower/packaur/yaourt compile fine.

Any ideas? (beyound changing build dir, which I already tried)

PS I humbly ask someone to move this thread to apropriate forum subsection.

Last edited by przemoli (2013-08-11 11:01:01)

nTia89

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

these are very general information.

I think could be a temperatures problem, so try to control it during a compilation

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przemoli

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

Will pacaur -S firefox-kde-opensuse again this time with plasma wiged for CPU temps present.

And I have no idea what other info should I add, as I have no idea what may be the problem here..

graysky

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

If not temp throttling could be low memory and swapping.  What is your hardware (CPU and memory amount) and are you using a swap partition?  Other thing to add is that the BFS in linux-ck package may give you increased repsonceness here as well.

Last edited by graysky (2013-08-11 11:20:56)

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przemoli

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

Asus N71jq

That is i7 720, and 4GB of RAM (and 8GB of swap). Though I use /opt/tmp dir for building and not /tmp.

graysky

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

Should be plenty... Try linux-ck and report back?

Last edited by graysky (2013-08-11 12:13:21)

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Grant

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Registered: 2012-12-15

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

Have you set /etc/makepkg.conf to use all your CPU cores? Do you also use any -O flags?

Last edited by Grant (2013-08-11 13:00:19)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Computer (almost) freeze during makepkg when compiling.

Post the output of 'free -m' when this happens next time. You can install and run iotop too.

What's the nice & ionice level of makepkg you run?

Last edited by karol (2013-08-11 13:50:18)