Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:59:08 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian <bri@numail.brianwhalen.net> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>, Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upper limit on make -j ? Message-ID: <474D3BEC.7030700@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20071127230252.L3826@numail.brianwhalen.net> References: <bef9a7920711270025k73cfd90i4d3abe3c6eab6160@mail.gmail.com> <474C3A12.9040107@gmail.com> <200711271657.00637.pieter@degoeje.nl> <474CA4E7.9060401@cran.org.uk> <20071127161036.L1233@numail.brianwhalen.net> <474CE269.4000608@gmail.com> <20071127230252.L3826@numail.brianwhalen.net>
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Brian wrote: > There's a thread on the -stable list about 8 cores being an issue in a > very specific case. I couldn't imagine setting j to something more than > 2x or 3x at the most of your available cores. So it's okay by you that freebsd utilities crash when you overload them? Not to me ;-) BTW, Aryeh, posting 800KB of your buildworld output to the mailing list is exceedingly lame and doesn't help anything. Please study the gdb trace provided by Bruce: that is the kind of debugging that was required here, not huge amounts of irrelevant text from your console. Kris
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