[gentoo-user] The root of my problem.

[gentoo-user] The root of my problem.

[Alan Grimes]

I kinda botched the first --emptytree world....  I'm on my second now 
and a clear pattern is emerging...

dev-cpp
│   └── abseil-cpp-20240722.0


That is causing cascade failures into protobuf, marble, opencv and 
almost surely others.


The problem is that it was written in C++. In order to write C++ you 
need to live for 7 years in a monestary high on a mountain. By the 
middle of the second year, most programmers realize there is no point, 
come down from the mountain, finish the project in C to great acclaim, 
before the 7 years are up too!

These developers spent only six years and six months on top of the 
mountain and played it fast and loose with the compiler too and, used 
types in ways that the previous compiler let them get away with but the 
current one doesn't....

Anyway I'm going to reboot my computer and start the process of finding 
a combination of kernel and Nvidia drivers that actually works. =|


I'm running kernel 6.10 right now and it has this bizzare obsession with 
cache, it will exhaust a pool of 400gb of physical ram as cache until 
the machine gets choked, forgetting what the point of cache was (hint: 
It's not to choke the machine by consuming all ram!!!) and force the 
user to manually get the damn thing to clear all of it. This happened 
after only two months (and change) of uptime which is ludicrous... I 
shouldn't have to do a damn thing for six months... This is the problem 
which prompted me to go through the agony of trying to upgrade to newer 
versions with more bugs, less support for the things I actually know how 
to use, slower, with more build errors, but newer... Yes, newer is the 
only thing that matters...

Look at this!!! I cleared cache only 4 days ago and it's already sitting 
on 224 GB  of cache!!!

KiB Mem : 52765632+total, 26441356+free, 44915076 used, 22483510+buff/cache

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Re: [gentoo-user] The root of my problem.

[Wols Lists]

On 21/12/2024 22:53, Alan Grimes wrote:
> 
> Look at this!!! I cleared cache only 4 days ago and it's already sitting 
> on 224 GB  of cache!!!
> 
> KiB Mem : 52765632+total, 26441356+free, 44915076 used, 22483510+buff/cache

Don't you mean 22GB cache :-) You can't have more cache than ram (I 
guess you've got 48GB?)

I never clear cache, even after an emerge and all that, although my 
system never has more than about a week's uptime before it locks up with 
something.

What's pulling in your abseil? Can you temporarily delete it from world, 
or --exclude it? My laptop is now refusing to build firefox and 
thunderbird, I'm wondering whether I'm going to have to find my desktop 
settings and exclude rust ... :-(

Cheers,
Wol