[Boost-users] Compile on OSX hangs, huge memory usage, xml_grammar.o

From: Stian Soiland (stian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-18 11:49:44

Tried to build boost_1_32_0 on OSX today, but the build process brought  
the machine to trashing, as cc1plus ended up using all available  
memory. The problem seems related to
libs/serialization - removing it made the rest of boost build almost OK.

Here are the details:

Mac OS X 10.3.7, with gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc.  
build 1666)
Lots of programs from fink installed to /sw
Lots of programs from opendarwin installed to /opt

1. port install boost-jam  (3.1.10)
2. Downloaded boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2 from boost.org and unpacked
3. bjam -sTOOLS=darwin stage
4. Start top in another terminal
5. Wait some hours until your hard drive starts to make crazy noises
6. Last bjam output will be:

darwin-C++-action  
bin/boost/libs/serialization/build/libboost_serialization.a/darwin/ 
release/xml_grammar.o

Top will show something like:

Processes:  88 total, 2 running, 1 stuck, 85 sleeping... 223 threads    
17:46:32
Load Avg:  1.72, 1.89, 1.45     CPU usage:  9.5% user, 30.2% sys, 60.3%  
idle
SharedLibs: num =  131, resident = 7.25M code,  404K data,  136K  
LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 28961, resident =  896M + 2.28M private, 16.7M shared
PhysMem:   111M wired,  601M active,  300M inactive, 1013M used, 10.6M  
free
VM: 7.65G + 88.6M   1116924(79) pageins, 1865004(459) pageouts

   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE   
VSIZE
28631 cc1plus     11.5%  1:51.55   1    12 16184   842M-  804K   543M-  
1.09G+
28630 g++-3.3      0.0%  0:00.03   1    11    18     0K   264K    76K   
21.8M
28628 bjam         0.0%  0:07.44   1    12    52     4K   264K    92K   
31.2M

rm -rf libs/serialization to avoid problem. But I guess some people  
actually need those xml-grammars..

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