Error upgrading 7.0 to 7.2 (buildword in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libopcodes setp)

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-stable-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespasac at minibofh.org> writes:
>> Lowell Gilbert escribió:
>> Wonderful. I've used times the same command (1) without -j flag
>> and... it works perfectly!
>> It's curious, because of I always use the -j flag in buildworld with
>> successs. It has been the first time that I've experienced this
>> problem....
>
> buildworld is supposed to work with -j, but I've never used a value that
> large.  Unless you have 8 or more CPU cores available, I would expect
> builds to be faster if you reduced that value.
>

Running more concurrent processes will use more CPU and more memory
(you'd hope, anyways). This could lead it to use bits of hardware with
-j 8 that it wouldn't use without it, potentially exposing hardware
flaws.

Cheers

Tom