From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 18:16:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7E937B401; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44AD43F3F; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481702A7EA; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:16:34 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030722011634.481702A7EA@canning.wemm.org> cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray cc: i386@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [-CURRENT tinderbox] failure on i386/i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:16:35 -0000 Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > Peter Wemm writes: > > Hmm. I thought it was gzip that was dying. Looks like its make instead, a= > nd > > is rather consistent. > > "told you so" > > > So, who has been messing with make(1) lately? > > I believe that the problem is in the kernel, not in make(1); it just > happens to be triggered by make(1) because it is a big (if not the > biggest) vfork(2) consumer. For a minute I had a horrible thought that it might have been a consequence of the lazy switch stuff. But the kernel on cueball predates the turn-on and doesn't have the options enabled. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5