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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:03:00 -0500
From:      Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote:

> On 5 December 2017 at 22:53, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [...]
> > 2. I installed synth (2.00) and *ATTEMPTED* to do a upgrade-system with
> the
> > following results (still not a successful run):
> >
> >     a. Hard freezes the machine (not even a kernel panic) 4 times in a
> row
>
> synth runs parallel builds using multi-workers, and it can trash the
> hard disk pretty hard as it uses swap for tmpfs. Reduce the number of
> workers and/or jobs if you intend using the box during a build.
>
>
2 of the hard freezes came after reducing the number of workers to 1 (from
3)



-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org



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