On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:51:33PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My opinion is that there should be a threshold value empirically derived by > the developer / retrieved by bug reports, as well as a knob, to specify the > maximum number of parallel jobs to be used for a particular port, that way > you don't get people accidentally specifying, say 10 jobs when it can only > handle 2-3.
That's a false dichotomy; either a port correctly specifies its dependency ordering in which case it will build under all circumstances, or it does not, in which case it may randomly fail due to factors other than -j value, including system load, CPU vs I/O speed, etc. Kris
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