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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:27:38 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@hackerheaven.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: many copies of make running while building a port...
Message-ID:  <20020130182737.GS92289@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <86263CF3-1547-11D6-A3B8-000A277C7FDE@hackerheaven.org>
References:  <86263CF3-1547-11D6-A3B8-000A277C7FDE@hackerheaven.org>

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In the last episode (Jan 30), Emiel Kollof said:
> Just a question: It seems while building a port, the ports system
> somehow spawns hundreds and hundreds of copies of make (even so much
> that they start hitting system limits). What's causing it, and how do
> I make it stop doing that.
> 
> Number of procs in top(1) shoot up into the ranges of 600+ procs (and
> usually defunct). Load average sometimes jumps up into the 100+ (I
> kid you not). I doubt that that is desired operation. I only started
> seeing this behavior when I switched over to CURRENT, but this mail
> is cc'd to ports@ too, just in case. It makes using portupgrade(1) as
> tense as a good thriller flick (will my system survive? The
> suspense!)

I've had that happen when I put typos in /etc/make.conf (i.e. syntax
errors or HAVE_/WANT_ variables that don't belong there).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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