From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 09:15:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392C016A4DC for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:15:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (pointyhat.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5425E13C458; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:15:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <474BE029.4040409@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:15:21 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Shute References: <20071127083538.GA19545@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071127083538.GA19545@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aryeh Friedman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upper limit on make -j ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:15:12 -0000 Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:25:52AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: >> >> make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel >> seg faulting > > No. Where in the handbook or UPDATING does it tell you to build your > system like that? It should not seg fault though. However, when I have done this in the past it has not seg faulted, either. The OP needs to obtain backtraces with his PR submission since it may not be reliably reproduceable. Kris