Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:56:59 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Upper limit on make -j ? Message-ID: <200711271657.00637.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <474C3A12.9040107@gmail.com> References: <bef9a7920711270025k73cfd90i4d3abe3c6eab6160@mail.gmail.com> <474C3A12.9040107@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Andy Greenwood wrote: > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR > > for: > > > > make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel > > seg faulting > > I thought that the kernel builds couldn't be built using parallel jobs, > that it might break something. Is that not true? In my experience parallel kernel builds are fine. I think (wild guess) the OP is running out of memory and somewhere in make or gcc the return value of malloc() isn't checked. - Pieter de Goeje
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