From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 04:19:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA16436 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 04:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16429; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:19:31 GMT (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05818; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:19:22 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199804211119.NAA05818@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: usr.bin/expand breaks make world In-Reply-To: <199804211011.UAA11629@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au> from Stephen McKay at "Apr 21, 98 08:11:50 pm" To: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:19:22 +0200 (MEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, gmarco@giovannelli.it, current@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Stephen McKay who wrote: > > This is strange. What does the corruption look like? On my system, parts > of C programs were written to the .depend file. This might be a separate > problem with generation of just this .depend file. > > >Are you by any chance running SMP and with a large -j ?? > >I get messed up dependencies when I run with -j9... > >It started when Bruce messed around with the makefiles weeks ago... > > This is getting murky. There are so many possible things to blame! > > I ran with -j2 but have only 12Mb of ram, so it does a lot of paging. > Could your -j9 be enough to cause your system to page? Bruce's changes > could be just a coincidence if you only started stressing your system > recently. Not likely, my system has 256Mb RAM so it's (almost) never paging/swapping. BTW running 3 make -j4 worlds in parallel works just fine :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message