Bill and David,

Thanks for the replies. I had to shift to something else for a bit but I'm back 
to looking at this...

Bill, I'm not sure what you mean by "external projects"? My software is built 
as part of a large suite of open-source software collectively named Trilinos 
that is owned, or at least managed, by my company. My own code project isn't 
directly part of the Trilinos project but they have  a mechanism that allows 
for the build of my code to be incorporated into their build process. All of 
the software being built is either part of Trilinos or my own code. Nothing 
from "outside" is included in the build. All of it relies on cmake.

David, memory usage was certainly a  good thought, but from what I can tell 
there's no memory issue. While the build is huge it's on a system with 128GB of 
RAM and while it's a bit tricky getting memory usage of a process on Linux, use 
of "ps", "free", and "vmstat" didn't seem to indicate that memory usage was an 
issue.

I did notice, by using "ps -ef" during the "ctest" build, there are lots of 
zombie cmake processes. I suspect these zombies are eating up the GNU-make 
parallel slots that are available. I have no idea why these are being created 
and why they're not being killed.

Anyway, I believe we have a support contract with Kitware so I'm going to track 
down the proper local contacts to use that "official" channel. 

Thanks again,
Gary

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:28:31 -0400
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com>
To: cmake@cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] FW: Parallel GNU make issue
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On 9/11/2014 4:09 PM, Hennigan, Gary L wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Chuck.
Do you have an external projects in this build?

-Bill



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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:15:42 -0400
From: David Cole <dlrd...@aol.com>
To: glhe...@sandia.gov, chuck.atk...@kitware.com
Cc: cmake@cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] FW: Parallel GNU make issue
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Is there a significant amount of output from make? What does make do if it's 
running low on RAM?

ctest may be holding onto "too much" memory trying to process the output if 
it's very large...

Just a thought -- worth a look, though.


D



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