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From: Steven Elling <ellings@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!!
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:06:10
Message-Id: 1070676370.15335.21.camel@radiation.wks.electrostatic.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Be Careful of Your MAKEOPTS!! by Spider
1 On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:54, Spider wrote:
2 > begin quote
3 > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:36:12 -0500
4 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
5 >
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9 > > On Thursday 04 December 2003 20:26, Steven Elling wrote:
10 > > > P.S. Developers: You might want to look into adding a number to the
11 > > > '-j'
12 > > > option in MAKEOPTS during emerges of certain packages to account for
13 > > > this situation.
14 > >
15 > > i doubt that'll happen
16 > > after all, some machines have 64 cpu's in them ... i think they might
17 > > be able to handle the make fork bombing of glibc
18 >
19 >
20 > quite true, and its just extra overhead to protect somone who should
21 > know better. And, if you have more RAM it will work ;) (slowly, but
22 > work)
23 >
24 > //Spider
25
26 I did not mention it but I was using ccache and distcc with 3 machines
27 (problem box included).
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29 I used to have 512MB of memory in this system but I had to rob 256MB for
30 my server because one stick fried in it. I would buy more memory but my
31 current job situation will not allow it.
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33 Oh, and I know better. It's just one of those problems I don't deal
34 with that often and, when things go awry, I don't recognize it off the
35 bat. However, I do know what to look at when problems occur.
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37 The only reason it took me a while to figure out what was going wrong is
38 I didn't really care to look into the problem and left it for later.
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