Re: osprey buildfarm member has been failing for a long while

Tom Lane wrote:
> "osprey" hasn't been able to build HEAD since the GIN code was added.
> I'm not sure that GIN is really to blame though, as the error looks
> like an out-of-memory problem while trying to link the backend:
>
> ccache gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -g -L../../src/port -Wl,-R'/data/postgresql/buildfarm/workdir/HEAD/inst/lib' -Wl,-E access/SUBSYS.o bootstrap/SUBSYS.o catalog/SUBSYS.o parser/SUBSYS.o commands/SUBSYS.o executor/SUBSYS.o lib/SUBSYS.o libpq/SUBSYS.o main/SUBSYS.o nodes/SUBSYS.o optimizer/SUBSYS.o port/SUBSYS.o postmaster/SUBSYS.o regex/SUBSYS.o rewrite/SUBSYS.o storage/SUBSYS.o tcop/SUBSYS.o utils/SUBSYS.o ../../src/timezone/SUBSYS.o ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a -lintl -lcrypt -lm -o postgres
> ld in malloc(): error: brk(2) failed [internal error]
> gcc: Internal error: Abort trap (program ld)
> Please submit a full bug report.
> See <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/send-pr.html> for instructions.
> gmake[2]: *** [postgres] Error 1
>
> Perhaps the swap space or ulimit setting on the box needs to be raised?
>
>
>

Or maybe ccache is the culprit - there have been suspicions before that
ccache is responsible for errors, but it's never been confirmed. Remi,
can you try turning it off and see what happens? just comment out the CC
=> "cache gcc" line in the config file.

cheers

andrew