From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com (mail-wi0-f176.google.com [209.85.212.176]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A7A72564 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f176.google.com with SMTP id ex7so11405286wid.15 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:36:26 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vOr7ValLt2bhxlC9m854sSyKgofNDLmCE+y+1fgQWLo=; b=LGYS5zPNEaRC+VF0kEMgFTBrmJtR144xpDZ3hJIzl6YFJQAzIUVTKDrU8fsXajBvxE Ig/cmzw1QmxcJI/iLSbvH0IiAbh/jxWQiJS5/UzqXOl9WtYA+5MF0ut7L5Zg6OyfuyWF N5eGDWz8SFC/NZlkq0vNQcQz7kDvzrmbggqUDwCcs/JOeSQXwTYxyUaHMrP5agRHD9Ik s2N3s2gbpShG43Nircc3q5bOBvrKug7mDq7wKjtCIa/eQJC4vs+cXI+mj3HNexM1U1NE RaDboXofLbZBIdS0mWQVXKxUMd7A7DHB2oKOykSQVVKCu7ruBOZyZkrBXqabIPEf24lU 5iog== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkaGsrUYLsBwhpbYwqziGrEzCgl6D5QT9VHO+hOgaq1QMdvEr/i7PZcs4LqsRKnwqm74zE4 X-Received: by 10.194.216.170 with SMTP id or10mr59798160wjc.96.1418718986813; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:36:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mobil-400-586.internal.dresearch-fe.de (zk223.dresearch-fe.de. [217.92.177.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bj3sm16077512wib.3.2014.12.16.00.36.25 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:36:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <548FEF09.80304@dresearch-fe.de> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:36:25 +0100 From: Steffen Sledz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Enrico Scholz , openembedded-core References: <548EBDE0.3080704@dresearch-fe.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: "qemu-arm udevadm hwdb --update" eats swap space after build host update to openSUSE 13.2 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:36:36 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 15.12.2014 17:19, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Steffen Sledz writes: > >> The first thing we observed was that the do_rootfs stage made a very >> big load (more than 500) on the machine but the cpu's aren't working >> for 100%. I could track down the problem to the call >> ... >> which eats swap space without end till the system crashes (more than 100GB swap space ist available). >> >> I've no idea how to inspect this problem further. Any ideas? > > I had a similar issue when /var/tmp in the rootfs was an absolute symlink > pointing to toplevel /var/tmp which contained some millions of files. > > Can you look (lsof) which files are open by qemu? Crazy! This really seems to be the problem. I had a big subtree from earlier local openSUSE Build Service runs below toplevel /var/run. After deleting this the build succeeds. But manually deleting such files before running OE builds cannot really be a reasonable solution. :( -- DResearch Fahrzeugelektronik GmbH Otto-Schmirgal-Str. 3, 10319 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 515932-237 mailto:sledz@dresearch-fe.de Fax: +49 30 515932-299 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Weber, Werner Mögle; Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg; HRB 130120 B; Ust.-IDNr. DE273952058