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Subject: Re: -current kernel can't be complied for 3 days 
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In message <20050724192530.GB84677@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:

>There is a default limit of 16 simultaneous execs that can be easily
>saturated on an SMP system (further execs cause aborts as you are
>seeing).  Increase the value of the vm.exec_map_entries tunable.

Sounds like something which should be autotuned better to the number
of CPUS.

Also, the abort() sounds wrong, why not sleep and retry ?

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