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#1 2011-11-18 19:59:52

veox
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[SOLVED] Building pivy-hg takes a lot of memory

I'm building 'freecad' from AUR, which requires 'pivy-hg'. When building the latter,

Platform...linux2
Python version...2.7.2
Checking for swig... '/usr/bin/swig'
Checking for SWIG version... 2.0.4
Warning: Pivy has only been tested with the following SWIG versions: 1.3.31 1.3.33 1.3.35 1.3.40.
Checking for coin-config... '/usr/bin/coin-config'
Coin version... 3.1.3
Checking for Coin features... 3ds import  vrml97  sound  threads  threadsafe 
Checking for soqt-config... '/usr/bin/soqt-config'
Checking for soqt version... 1.5.0
Checking for soxt-config... not found.
Checking for sogtk-config... not found.
Checking for sowin-config... not found.
Checking for simvoleon-config... not found.
Preparing Inventor headers:.
=== pivy/gui/soqt_wrap.cpp for pivy.gui.soqt already exists! ===
=== pivy/coin_wrap.cpp for pivy.coin already exists! ===
running build_py
package init file 'pivy/quarter/plugins/designer/python/__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)
copying pivy/gui/soqt.py -> build/lib/pivy/gui
copying pivy/coin.py -> build/lib/pivy
copying pivy/coin.py -> build/lib/pivy
copying pivy/gui/soqt.py -> build/lib/pivy/gui
package init file 'pivy/quarter/plugins/designer/python/__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)
running build_ext
building '_coin' extension
gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c pivy/coin_wrap.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pivy/coin_wrap.o -Iinterfaces -I/usr/include/Inventor/annex -D_REENTRANT

At this point, cc1plus gobbles up a lot of memory (seems like everything that's left of physical memory, in my case 500-700 out of ~900 MB) and stops doing much (or so it looks, processor usage falls down to 6%).

Here's how the process is called, with a parent and grandparent:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
veox     17436  1.8  0.0  13312   496 pts/7    SN+  21:09   0:00 gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c pivy/coin_wrap.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/pivy/coin_wrap.o -Iinterfaces -I/usr/include/Inventor/annex -D_REENTRANT
veox     17446  0.0  0.0  12644   156 pts/7    SN+  21:09   0:00 /usr/bin/gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c -Iinterfaces -I/usr/include/Inventor/annex -D_REENTRANT -o /home/cy/.ccache/7/d/d902ae3b6f9960dd4ee8b3b9315009-20531124.o.tmp.sidep.ath.cx.17436 /home/cy/.ccache/tmp/coin_wrap.tmp.sidep.ath.cx.17436.ii
veox     17447 6.0  66.8 576296 446148 pts/7   DN+  21:09   0:07 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/cc1plus -fpreprocessed /home/cy/.ccache/tmp/coin_wrap.tmp.sidep.ath.cx.17436.ii -quiet -dumpbase coin_wrap.tmp.sidep.ath.cx.17436.ii -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -march=core2 -auxbase-strip /home/cy/.ccache/7/d/d902ae3b6f9960dd4ee8b3b9315009-20531124.o.tmp.sidep.ath.cx.17436 -O2 -O2 -fstack-protector -fPIC --param ssp-buffer-size=4 -o -

Is this a bug, or do I need more memory? wink

Last edited by veox (2011-11-19 20:03:31)

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#2 2011-11-19 00:07:33

tomd123
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Re: [SOLVED] Building pivy-hg takes a lot of memory

since this is c++, I would be surprised if this was a bug tongue
I would say get at least 1 more GiB of ram if you can afford it, especially if you will be doing any constant modeling or compiling.

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#3 2011-11-19 20:03:04

veox
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Re: [SOLVED] Building pivy-hg takes a lot of memory

Upgraded my RAM, and indeed, the process needs around 1,5 GB to do its thing.

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#4 2012-07-17 20:06:11

SUK
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Re: [SOLVED] Building pivy-hg takes a lot of memory

OK. I have 1GB RAM and I will not have more. Is there chance, that is will ever complete?

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#5 2012-07-17 21:21:38

veox
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Re: [SOLVED] Building pivy-hg takes a lot of memory

SUK, Try turning off optimisation (gcc option -O2). IIRC, -O does minimal optimisation without trying to take too much RAM.

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#6 2013-01-20 15:23:25

jonadem
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Re: [SOLVED] Building pivy-hg takes a lot of memory

Hello,

Have you try with bigger swap space ?
You can have swap space whithin a file :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap

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