Upper limit on make -j ?
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 28 01:59:00 PST 2007
Brian wrote:
> There's a thread on the -stable list about 8 cores being an issue in a
> very specific case. I couldn't imagine setting j to something more than
> 2x or 3x at the most of your available cores.
So it's okay by you that freebsd utilities crash when you overload them?
Not to me ;-)
BTW, Aryeh, posting 800KB of your buildworld output to the mailing list
is exceedingly lame and doesn't help anything. Please study the gdb
trace provided by Bruce: that is the kind of debugging that was required
here, not huge amounts of irrelevant text from your console.
Kris
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