Re: building LLVM threads gets killed

From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 07:50:28 +0800
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:04 PM Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net wrote on
> Mon Aug 20 14:26:55 UTC 2018 :
>
> > > On 20 Aug 2018, at 05:01, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am running current compiling LLVM60 and when it comes to linking
> > > > basically all the processes on my computer gets killed; Chrome,
> Firefox and
> > > > some of the LLVM threads as well
> > > ...
> > > > llvm/build % ninja -j8
> > > > [2408/2473] Building CXX object
> > > > lib/Passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMPasses.dir/PassBuilder.cpp.o
> > > > FAILED: lib/Passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMPasses.dir/PassBuilder.cpp.o
> > > > /usr/bin/c++  -DGTEST_HAS_RTTI=0 -D_DEBUG -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
> > > > -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS -Ilib/Passes
> -I../lib/Passes
> > > > -Iinclude -I../include -isystem /usr/local/include -fPIC
> > > > -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Werror=date-time
> > > > -Werror=unguarded-availability-new -std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra
> > > > -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual
> > > > -Wmissing-field-initializers -pedantic -Wno-long-long
> > > > -Wcovered-switch-default -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor
> > > > -Wstring-conversion -fdiagnostics-color -g    -fno-exceptions
> -fno-rtti -MD
> > > > -MT lib/Passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMPasses.dir/PassBuilder.cpp.o -MF
> > > > lib/Passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMPasses.dir/PassBuilder.cpp.o.d -o
> > > > lib/Passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMPasses.dir/PassBuilder.cpp.o -c
> > > > ../lib/Passes/PassBuilder.cpp
> > > > c++: error: unable to execute command: Killed
> > >
> > > It is running out of RAM while running multiple parallel link jobs.  If
> > > you are building using WITH_DEBUG, turn that off, it consumes large
> > > amounts of memory.  If you must have debug info, try adding the
> > > following flag to the CMake command line:
> > >
> > > -D LLVM_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS:STRING="1"
> > >
> > > That will limit the amount of parallel link jobs to 1, even if you
> > > specify -j 8 to gmake or ninja.
> > >
> > > Brooks, it would not be a bad idea to always use this CMake flag in the
> > > llvm ports. :)
> >
> > And this may also fix the issues that all the small
> > memory (aka, RPI*) buliders are facing when trying
> > to do -j4?
>
> It may help, but:
>
> Even just compiles with no links running can get the kills
> in such small system contexts.
>
> And going for a simpler context that can demonstrate
> the behavior . . .
>
> Taking a Pine64+ 2GB as an example (4 cores with 1
> HW-thread per core, 2 GiBytes of RAM, USB device for
> root file system and swap partition):
>
> In another login:
> # stress -d 2 -m 4 --vm-keep --vm-bytes 536870912
>
> That "4" and "536870912" total to the 2 GiBytes so
> swapping is induced for the context in question.
> (Scale --vm-bytes appropriately to context.)
> [Note: I had 3 GiBytes of swap space in a partition
> for the below.]
>
> [stress is from the port sysutils/stress .]
>
> I had left the default vm.pageout_oom_seq=12 in place for this,
> making the kills easier to get than the 120 figure would. It
> does not take very long generally for some sort of message to
> show up. Sometimes kills happen:
>
> My test environment has Mark Johnston patches to report
> things not normally reported:
>
> waited 9s for async swap write
> waited 9s for swap buffer
> waited 9s for async swap write
> waited 9s for async swap write
> waited 9s for async swap write
> v_free_count: 1357, v_inactive_count: 1
> Aug 20 06:04:27 pine64 kernel: pid 1010 (stress), uid 0, was killed: out
> of swap space
> waited 5s for async swap write
> waited 5s for swap buffer
> waited 5s for async swap write
> waited 5s for async swap write
> waited 5s for async swap write
> waited 13s for async swap write
> waited 12s for swap buffer
> waited 13s for async swap write
> waited 12s for async swap write
> waited 12s for async swap write
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 161177, size: 131072
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 164766, size: 65536
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 164064, size: 12288
> . . .
>
> (I made multiple runs, most manually stopped. None run for
> all that long.)
>
> (Warning: the swap space part of "killed: out of swap space"
> can be a misnomer. Killing is driven by having low free RAM
> for sufficiently long. vm.pageout_oom_seq controls how
> long. Swap space may be unused, little used, or actually be
> low. With 3 GiBytes of swap space in the partition, these
> runs were not low on swap space.)
>
> Even with fairly stable ms/w figures the queue depths can
> get to be large, implying long times before the last queued
> write completes. For example (for a USB storage device for
> the root file system and swap partition):
>
> dT: 1.006s  w: 1.000s
> L(q)  ops/s    r/s   kBps   ms/r    w/s   kBps   ms/w    d/s   kBps
>  ms/d   %busy Name
>    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0      0      0
> 0.0    0.0| mmcsd0
>   56    312      0      0    0.0    312  19985  142.6      0      0
> 0.0   99.6| da0
>
> Large quantities of bytes are being queued in a short time
> relative to the around 20 MiByte/sec figure that can be
> sustained. The quantity is spread over the queue entries.
>
>
> Note: The Pine46+ 2GB builds devel/llvm60 in 14.5hr just fine
> with vm.pageout_oom_seq=120 when using  all 4 cores. But it
> has twice the RAM as a rpi3/rpi2 while having the same number
> of cores. It simply does not have as much to write out as
> often. (The same sort of point goes for buildworld buildkernel
> sorts of activities.)
>
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
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>
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I'd just like to clarify that I am not on what should be considered a
limited system like the RPI.

I have:
hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU _at_ 2.60GHz
32GB of ram and a 256GB m.2 ssd.

Best,
Owen
Received on Mon Aug 20 2018 - 21:50:40 UTC

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