Re: Sphinx parallel build errors

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 10/10/19 1:15 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/10/19 11:48 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:30:56 -0700
>> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering if it's actually the addition of
>>> the MAINTAINERS file parsing -- that's a really big parse and maybe that
>>> pushed things over the edge?
>>
>> That does seem like a likely culprit, doesn't it?  Watching a build here,
>> though, I don't see that any one of the sphinx-build processes balloons to
>> a horrific size, which is what I would expect if one file were causing the
>> problem.
>>
>> In general, the sphinx build doesn't really begin to approach the memory
>> requirements of, say, firefox or my mail client on my system.
>>
>> Randy, I'd be curious to know if you see the same behavior with current
>> mainline.  Also, can you see how many sphinx-build processes you have
>> running?
> 
> Yes, I see oom-kills when building docs for 5.4-rc2.
> But only after I ran 'gimp *.jpg' for 22 photos.
> 
> I can see anywhere from 1 to 4 sphinx-build processes running.

I continue to have oom-kills when building docs.
At least 2 times I also had system freezes where I had to power
cycle to reboot.

I suppose I can only hope that other people start running into this
issue.  :(

-- 
~Randy