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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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