From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A7F138010 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C167E077A; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8706CE0595 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F4433DF2B for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:44:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.051 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.051 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.040, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.211, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dVaGNaFxyAC6 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79A7433DF2A for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4MSj-0003ko-RX for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:43:57 +0200 Received: from athedsl-350244.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.223.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:43:57 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-350244.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:43:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xz memory hungry? Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:43:33 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-350244.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120811 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: c962c2b9-a90c-4e0b-bd7c-3cac5df1d20d X-Archives-Hash: 0a029e37e48283fa69976fbf399218ea On 22/08/12 21:52, Jorge Almeida wrote: > # tar -xJvf /usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.16.tar.xz > xz: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > The box has 2G ram + 1G swap. I'm installing Gentoo from an existing distro. > Emerging fails on m4. tar xJvf fails both from within the chroot and from the > host system. top shows that nothing is using any amount of memory worth > mentioning. Extracting libtool-2.4.tar.xz works. I can extract > m4-1.4.16.tar.xz in a computer with 4G ram. This is ridiculous. Not gentoo > related, except that I have no choice, as m4 is pulled by other packages. > What to do? > > app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.3 in chroot > xz 5.0.4 in host system (Archlinux) You should file a bug about this. Whoever put that xz there surely has no idea that this is happening.