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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2017 07:22:46 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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 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.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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