From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 17:40:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F441065670 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A43A8FC1A for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so290043ewy.3 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:40:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TZnn3aMGM0SsXhAMxxsbFiB9OQNOrQV5KjS3sIi51E8=; b=B2TVxfGRjvolRjdDCjrTPQxbOY6pdPYKQSExdfAh8n+wSOa3tppqu68znfgd+FwsSn j+1IsDH0xOQ0DjH1UPFKg0QjsjbJlXSfnWAy2ggsdNSZS4IYG9IF7+AE9HTPuxOqmD5d NE4RqNNNvcgqm+6kqRB4GKxtSh20OlYPHgO6Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NTQ/FZCwDqS+9CVUoQFIM509QK/aIeSyxnjDIyCKwKzWK+ZteHu/OEFVs37y8Y1fcm smc9Gn02hPAIWnAasHYyfYebsULmmIqreoCavyRirtN1uPf6hBUy8EH1aMxHrB6Ak2iS DOUOeIGRgYFJ81JFLsX0CZ4lm5Ly8NsEydcyk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.40.206 with SMTP id l14mr1475796ebe.60.1260985202878; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:40:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <44d42eg9rc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4B28C842.3030704@minibofh.org> <448wd39j4o.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <4B29090E.8060507@minibofh.org> <44d42eg9rc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:40:02 +0000 Message-ID: <2e027be00912160940g27e31caco757da6ed8f919c19@mail.gmail.com> From: Tom Evans To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:40:05 -0000 On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jordi Espasa Clofent writes: >> Lowell Gilbert escribi=C3=B3: >> Wonderful. I've used times the same command (1) without -j flag >> and... it works perfectly! >> It's curious, because of I always use the -j flag in buildworld with >> successs. It has been the first time that I've experienced this >> problem.... > > buildworld is supposed to work with -j, but I've never used a value that > large. =C2=A0Unless you have 8 or more CPU cores available, I would expec= t > builds to be faster if you reduced that value. > Running more concurrent processes will use more CPU and more memory (you'd hope, anyways). This could lead it to use bits of hardware with -j 8 that it wouldn't use without it, potentially exposing hardware flaws. Cheers Tom