Emerge progress bar

raptor · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 171

I was tring upgrade of perl to r12 and when it start make it eats all my memory including the swap..... i had to shutdown twice.... :"(

on the third try i had to do "killall -9 maketoo" just when the make started to succed in compiling perl...
It has to have a way to limit the number of maketoo started so that not eating the memory.... NOPROGRESS=yes doesnt help !!

Clete2 · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:26 pm Post subject:

Very nice

... needs to be added at least to the portage ~x86 tree so we dont have to manual download that small file...

digicosm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 90

I'm glad someone is working on this. But has development stopped? I want to install it, but the reports that it is breaking building certain packages is scaring me...

Achilles · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 3:37 am Post subject:

I forget the exact code (its in the first post, on the first page though :-p), but when I had errors, i simply did what was suggested in the first post and it worked fine (like NOPROGRESS=yes)

raptor · Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 171

i have removed it and then reemerged make...
Does this remove all traces of the package ?!

I had problems again this time with manual compiling... It seems when the thing to be comiled become bigger it fires too many make instanses that eats everything...

^Tomahawk^ · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 54

using emerge progres bar about 2 weeks or so... and it's pretty neat :twisted:

BUT

today I wanted to emerge mldonkey... so ocaml started to compile.. and it ate more and more of my memory, then kernel started to kill all other appz and suddenly hang... so I tried it again with USE="-tcltk", but still no go

so I rebooted to 2.6-test5-mm1 (normally use 2.4.21-ck3) and tried it there... still no go

so I rebooted back and had a silly idea to turn off the progress bar and see what's going on

.... so I turned it off and everything compiled well :!:

and what more, I had 180MBs of free memory all the time (/me is having 256MB system memory atm)...

where's the mistake?

I don't have much experience in coding personally, so I can't say much...
... just a shot, where does the output of gcc go? couldn't it cause the memory overload?
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bushwakko · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 495

sounds like there may be a memory leek somewhere...
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Achilles · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:57 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I've experienced some bugs with this program too. It would never compile openssl for me... only display the contents of the ebuild file.

blubbi · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:39 am Post subject:

ATTENTION:

the compilation of OPENSSL fails with the progress bar installed. Even if you use NOPROGRESS="yes"

emerge -C emerge-progress

and than the compilation works

cu
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dioxmat · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:58 am Post subject:

I haven't tried it yet, just looked at the maketoo.patch... I am too lazy to check make source, but if I understand correctly, you are opening /dev/null for _each_ job, and not closing it afterwards ? Hum, doesn't look nice to me.
Btw a log file would be a much better idea imho.

Oh, and people should be warned that all this stuff will probably slow down the emerging process a bit :-]
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dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

jsut when I thought I came up with an awesome new idea...

anyways, great work!

EDIT: It removes all of the compiling text. Is it possible for it to still show that stuff? Say an ebuild fails or something.... we want to know why!

markfl · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject:

Friendly bump to say is anything happening with this?
mayb in light of portage-ng this could be made to work....

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Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

This would be great in portage-ng, like a "silent" mode where I don't have to watch all that gcc output.

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

This project seems pretty dead...a real shame too. Especially since there are so many bugs in it, yet so much potential as well.
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JSylvia007 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:38 am Post subject:

Does anyone know the current status of the project?? I agree with Darckness... MUCH Potential

~Jake

Clete2 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject:

Yeah, not to mention, the guy went to the best college ever, Clemson University

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(uh, my dad went and all, wearing a Clemson shirt now)

Anyways, I would really like to see how it be picked up by someone else or put in portage. (maybe it shows the stuff, but at the bottom, a bar stays there) OR, some GUI thing like distccmon...
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vdboor · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 11:12 am Post subject:

I've noticed that the progressbar had a problem with doxygen-1.3.5-r1; it went over the 250...

All other scripts seam to work very neat! Great work!
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vdboor · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:11 pm Post subject: Don't use this patch!

This program just broke my Xorg-x11 build today.. First I tried to upgrade xorg-x11, and emerge thought make successed (but it failed), and unmerged my old package. .. bye bye xorg.

I also wasn't able to merge the package again, somewhere 'make' failed. the usual NOPROGRESS="yes" trick didn't work either!. :-(

Sorry too bad, because it was great to see an emerge-progress bar..
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