From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 9:34:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C40614F50 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:34:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12EF0z-000HLg-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:16:57 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12EF0y-0000sD-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:16:56 +0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:16:56 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Laurence Berland Cc: Jonathan Chen , R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Doesn't XFree86 Upgrade Properly Message-ID: <20000128171656.A3305@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.32.20000128074338.00740384@idx.com.au> <3890AF42.21F5F672@nwlink.com> <20000128100929.H3290@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> <3890FF00.53D88D7C@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3890FF00.53D88D7C@confusion.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence Berland wrote: > Logical and oft-quoted extension: If you think you've got a hardware > problem, try building something big. Too many people report panics on > make buildworlds only to find it's the first sign of the death of their > RAM. Try a buildworld with a large -j number as well, depending on how much RAM you have. I typically use -j4 for a normal build, more like -j20 to stress test things a bit. I think that was with 64MB of RAM, you could use higher -j with more RAM. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message