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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!!
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:54:25
Message-Id: 20031205025421.3991843c.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!! by Mike Frysinger
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2 On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:36:12 -0500
3 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
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8 > On Thursday 04 December 2003 20:26, Steven Elling wrote:
9 > > P.S. Developers: You might want to look into adding a number to the
10 > > '-j'
11 > > option in MAKEOPTS during emerges of certain packages to account for
12 > > this situation.
13 >
14 > i doubt that'll happen
15 > after all, some machines have 64 cpu's in them ... i think they might
16 > be able to handle the make fork bombing of glibc
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19 quite true, and its just extra overhead to protect somone who should
20 know better. And, if you have more RAM it will work ;) (slowly, but
21 work)
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23 //Spider
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!! Steven Elling <ellings@×××××.com>