From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 15 9:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D2637B401 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8FGnBc88599; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:49:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:49:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Subject: Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010915123606.035fcc18@192.168.0.12> Message-ID: <20010915124504.Y88379-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Mike Tancsa wrote: > Should a parallel build always work ? No. > I was just trying to stress a new > series of MB we are evaluating and to my suprise, -j4 works, but not -j8 I have several boxes that build fine with -j10, or higher, and one that chokes on anything above -j4. Just consider anything that works as bonus, but don't count on it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message