On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did an update to pybombs two days ago, and immediately gnuradio got to > around 57% completion and just hung my Ubuntu 13.10 computer so hard, I > couldn't get it to respond to ctrl-alt-del for over half and hour. > > I tried again after doing a force rebuild on gnuradio and it was worse. I > long-hit the power button to do a reset. > > I checked the pybombs defaults and it is makewidth = 4, but it certainly > acts like it is ignoring this and doing > > make -j > > . Further symptoms include a nonstop, hard green LED on disk writes on a 8 > GB system. I have never seen it actually go to a major use of virtual > memory (if that is what is happening) until now. > > I went into src/gnuradio/build and did a manual make -j4 and it worked > perfectly, thus my diagnosis. > > Bob
Yep, making with an unnumerated -j is really dangerous, even on very high-end systems. There was another report about issues with makewidth, so that needs looking into. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
