Re: parallel sort at fault? [Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid gross inefficiency...

2011-03-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Running make -j25 check on a nominal-12-core F14 system would cause serious difficulty leading to an OOM kill -- and this is brand new. It worked fine yesterday. I tracked it down to all of the make processes working on the

bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10

2011-03-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: That sounds good, but why make Solaris 9 a special case? Wouldn't it be simpler to do it for all platforms where gnulib defines futimens or utimensat functions? The functions of the two cycles are available on the following platforms: Cycle #1: futimensAIX 7, Cygwin

bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10

2011-03-12 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Bruno Haible's message of Sat Mar 12 07:11:51 -0500 2011: Hi Bruno, I'm applying this patch: Thanks for saving me the legwork on this. The patch does correct the problem. I appreciate the quick turnaround on this. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University