Prevent process in disk wait

[Daniel Bye]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 13:44, Chris (Chris 
<snagit at cbpratt.prohosting.com>), said:
> On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:18 AM, FreeBSD-Questions wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > While installing the Ruby port on a 6.1-Release system (uname -a
> > ...
> > 37788  p0  DL+   39:43.11 ./ruby18 ./bin/rdoc --all --ri --op
> > /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system .
> >
> > The system is an old Pentium 5 with a standard IDE drive. Is there a
>
> When I installed portupgrade last weekend, it seemed to have ruby as
> a dependency and hung for many hours at the exact same point.

portupgrade is written in Ruby, so this is to be expected.

> The 
> display of the make was stopped on ri. In looking at top, I noted
> that swap file was being used heavily. This particular system was a
> Pentium 500Mhz with only 128M. I attributed the problem to data IO
> and swap IO contention. After about 4, maybe 5 hours at that one
> spot, it did complete.

This is the stage during the build where the Ruby documentation is built.  It 
is apparently a very memory-hungry part of the build... If you don't want the 
Ruby docs, or are happy to use the online versions at ruby-lang.org, then you 
can set WITHOUT_RDOC to prevent the indexing process, or you can use 
NOPORTDOCS when building Ruby.  There are several ways to do this, depending 
on what tools you use for your ports management.  I would probably do 
something like this in /etc/make.conf:

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/ruby18}
WITHOUT_RDOC=1
.endif

This approach seems to work, no matter what tools you use.

Dan

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