On 4/12/19 3:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:
On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 11:04 +0000, Celti Burroughs wrote:
April 12, 2019 3:07 AM, "Jeanette C. via arch-general" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The thing that happens is for the AUR build process to swap massive
amounts of data, grinding the system almost to a halt and finally
failing without much of a reason. Nothing typically source code or
linkage related.
Are you using an AUR helper to run the build, or are you running it
manually using makepkg? It seems likely to me that your AUR helper is
building somewhere under /tmp, which is of course a tmpfs and thus
entirely resident in RAM — and thus causing massive and unnecessary
swapping.
I agree on the tmpfs guess. However, when not using a helper, users
might anyway tend to do the manual build process in tmpfs. OTOH I
sometimes still use a discontinued helper. For small software I just run
the helper and for large software I run an alias [1], to build outside
tmpfs.
When using the manual build process, then depending on the size of the
software to build, I also chose between tmpfs and no tmpfs for the build
directory.
The usage of tmpfs isn't necessarily related to the tools somebody does
use to build packages ;).
[1]
$ grep naourt .bashrc
alias naourt='echo "Not AnOther User Repository Tool";rm -rf /{.,}tmp/yaourt-tmp-$(id -un);yaourt --tmp /.tmp'
yaourt is discontinued. I use Trizen when i really need to use Aur
helper. Many options, it's possible to specify other directory than /tmp
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Maderios
