[OE-core] "qemu-arm udevadm hwdb --update" eats swap space after build host update to openSUSE 13.2

[Enrico Scholz]

Steffen Sledz <sledz-mQBY8sqGERgRVMum7q6B+Q at public.gmane.org> writes:

> The first thing we observed was that the do_rootfs stage made a very
> big load (more than 500) on the machine but the cpu's aren't working
> for 100%. I could track down the problem to the call
> ...
> which eats swap space without end till the system crashes (more than 100GB swap space ist available).
>
> I've no idea how to inspect this problem further. Any ideas?

I had a similar issue when /var/tmp in the rootfs was an absolute symlink
pointing to toplevel /var/tmp which contained some millions of files.

Can you look (lsof) which files are open by qemu?


Enrico