Hi, On 26/11/17 02:41, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > [ CCing debian-mips@lists.debian.org for porters input. ] > > Hi! > > On Thu, 2017-11-23 at 13:59:01 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.19.0.4 >> User: debian-mips@lists.debian.org >> Usertags: mips mipsel > >> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:14 PM, James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> wrote: >>> On 23/11/17 11:42, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>>> YunQiang, >>>> >>>> Do you know of any drawbacks ? >>> >>> This has been raised before: >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2016/10/msg00049.html >>> >>> I think it's generally a good idea. You wouldn't want to "enforce" this >>> - you would set it as an overridable default setting. >>> >>> I think the disadvantages are: compilation speed, I think there is no >>> official way to do this so you would have to hack the gcc source a bit, >>> and deviation from upstream / other distros. > > Why isn't this considered a buildd issue, lacking enough memory? Or as > hinted in the discussion, perhaps a leak in gcc? > > If this is gcc on MIPS just requiring more memory, why isn't such > value set as the default. Which would be overridable with the same > command-line option? Usually this is caused by gcc running out of virtual memory on 32-bit MIPS (which has on 2GB of user vm). IMO this should be fixed in gcc by adjusting the default values of the ggc-* params on 32-bit MIPS (or even all 32-bit architectures). James
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