Re: Buildworld Taking Very Long Time

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From: Tim Daneliuk <thronobulax_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:55:57 UTC

On 6/30/24 10:11, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> We do a nightly pull of -STABLE and then a buildworld/buildkernel
> 
> The world and kernel build typically has been taking about 45-60min on one of
> our quad core i5 machines.
> 
> For no obvious reason, it's now taking dozens of hours.  Any insight on why this
> might be happening would be appreciated.

As a followup -

- The machine in question is a 4 core I5 - a rather older one
- The build disk is a fairly recent (1 yo ish) ssd
- It has 8G of memory, but htop shows  no memory starvation  or use of swap
- HOWEVER, htop is reporting a load average of almost 14 (!) but I am specifying -j4 on the make line

Have buildworld  and buildkern suddenly decided to ignore the -j4 and launch tons of parallel processes?

Ideas anyone?