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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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