• [gentoo-user] The root of my problem.

    From Alan Grimes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 22 00:00:02 2024
    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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  • From Wols Lists@21:1/5 to Alan Grimes on Sun Dec 22 13:00:01 2024
    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

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