On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 14:10, Joe Gidi <j...@entropicblur.com> wrote:
> 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. > > > Strange, as i I can run make -j8 without any problems, both when compiling src and xenocara. It also has a pretty noticeable improvement over -j4. I run this on a i7 2620M on my thinkpad t520. Have never had any issue with -j x before, besides an error in ports, that was fixed the next time time I updated my cvs sources...
