[Call For Help] Clang + OpenJDK + head + amd64 == cocktail of death (for clusters)

[Dmitry Samersoff]

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Hi Baptiste,

If I understand you correct, hotspot crashes because of out of memory
or some other resource constraint?

Could you send me whole hs_err_<pid>.log file (or better couple of it)?

- -Dmitry


On 2013-07-25 12:39, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's been a while since we are experiencing major problem on the
> package buidling cluster: it dies when building package for head
> amd64. (the buidling jail being the snapshort from July 7th iirc.)
> 
> After some investigation we discover that blacklisting openjdk6
> allows the building process to go to completion again.
> 
> But not providing java packages is not a good solution.
> 
> We have managed to "fix" the build by limiting the allowed memory
> usage on each building jail to 8G, the result is a huge load of
> java packages just fail to build because it eats all the memory and
> then segfault, but at least they do not kill the box again. Have a
> look at the pkg-fallout mailing list you should be able to see lots
> of java port failed because of that.
> 
> It seems to happen only on head amd64, so far we think it is only
> happening when jdk is built with clang.
> 
> I have no time, neither skill to investigate that, so please if you
> are interested in having java packages available have a look at it,
> fix the problem if any may that be clang, openjdk, the ports tree
> framework for java building, or anything related. Otherwise I'll
> have to mark all failing packages as broken on head amd64 in the
> portstree :(
> 
> regards, Bapt
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
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