Hi. I just regained use of my system after 'make bootstrap' of gcc-4.1.1, with
uClibc-0.9.28 and linux-2.6.17.1, when it consumed all resources for about 30
minutes, and slowly gave resources back for 20 minutes after. I had a load
average of 8 (new record), used all 1GB of ram, used all 1GB of swap, and all
3ghz of cpu.
I would like to suggest we start using 'nice -n 19 su - hlfs', and 'nice -n
19 /tools/bin/bash' for chroot, unless anyone has objections.
robert
If your system has a load of 8, uses all main memory and swap (!) just by
running
a single application (make bootstrap), then there must be something seriously
wrong!
I have not tried gcc-4.1.1, but sofar all builds consumed at the most all main
memory, no swap (at most 100kB), and a load of maybe 1.5.
So I rather prefered to fix the problem rather than setting nice levels.
Normally a load of 8 signals a dead machine and is
out of discussion for a production server (talking about single processor
machines). Allthough HLFS is not normally build on a production system - there
is definitively something wrong!
Sebastian Faulborn
Homepage: http://www.secure-slinux.org
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