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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:40:02 +0000
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp)
Message-ID:  <2e027be00912160940g27e31caco757da6ed8f919c19@mail.gmail.com>
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>

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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespasac@minibofh.org> 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



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