On Tue, February 7, 2012 2:00 pm, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kenneth R Westerback > <kwesterb...@rogers.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:01:42PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: >>> I just built a new box with one of AMD's FX-8120 8-core processors and >>> wanted to stress-test it a bit. I installed the Feb 6 amd64 snapshot, >>> checked out a src tree, and had no trouble compiling GENERIC.MP. I >>> tried >>> compiling userland with "make -j8 build" and the box hung. >>> >>> Before I go further in depth with troubleshooting, I'd just like to >>> know >>> if this "should" work properly on good hardware. If it's known not to >>> work, I won't waste my (or the lists') time on figuring out why it's >>> hanging. >>> >>> Also, is there a maximum number of make jobs that should work? I used >>> to >>> run 'make -j4 build" successfully on my previous 4-core system... >>> >>> Thanks for any feedback, >>> >>> -- >>> Joe Gidi >>> j...@entropicblur.com >>> >>> "You cannot buy skill." -- Ross Seyfried >>> >> >> Sometimes it works and sometimes not. There are parts of the tree that >> have races. > > it is one thing for the build to fail, but the guy said "the box > hung", which indicates something is amiss.
Correct, it hung. Screen stopped updating, couldn't switch virtual consoles, had to reset via the power button. I had forgotten to enable ddb before the build, and I was watching 'systat sensors' on another virtual console at the time of the hang (watching CPU temps), so I couldn't see exactly where in the build the box hung. It did run for about 10 minutes before hanging, though. -- Joe Gidi j...@entropicblur.com "You cannot buy skill." -- Ross Seyfried
