Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:43:58 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za (John Hay), FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users), FreeBSD-smp@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD SMP list) Subject: Re: Hangs during 'make world -j4' on recent current Message-ID: <200012090743.eB97hwW08236@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20001209174153.V53111@wantadilla.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 9, 2000 05:41:53 pm"
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> >> For over a week now, I have been unable to complete a 'make world' on
> >> my -CURRENT box if I specify -j4. The system hangs and is completely
> >> unresponsive. This is a dual Celeron and an Abit BP6 motherboard. As
> >> far as I can tell, nobody knows what's causing this, nor even how to
> >> attack the problem. I'd like to solicit feedback about the extent of
> >> the problem, the possible causes, and how to debug it.
> >
> > I have been building releases with WORLD_FLAGS=-j4 successfully on my
> > SMP box with a Dec 1 kernel for the past week. Yesterday I upgraded the
> > kernel and with the new kernel did a make world -j4 which completed with
> > no problems. And afterwards a make release with WORLD_FLAGS=-j4 also
> > finished with no problems. So -current isn't totally broken. It might
> > be timing related. My machine is an old dual 266MHz PII.
^^^^
>
> How many processors does your machine have?
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John
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