should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Joe Gidi
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 de

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
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

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Joe Gidi
On Tue, February 7, 2012 1:45 pm, Kenneth R Westerback 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

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread patrick keshishian
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kenneth R Westerback 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

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Christian Weisgerber
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.

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Joe Gidi
On Tue, February 7, 2012 2:00 pm, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kenneth R Westerback > 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

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread vovka
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 14:10, Joe Gidi wrote: > On Tue, February 7, 2012 2:00 pm, patrick keshishian wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kenneth R Westerback > > 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

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:05:04PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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 G

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Joe Gidi
On Tue, February 7, 2012 1:56 pm, Joe Gidi wrote: > On Tue, February 7, 2012 1:45 pm, Kenneth R Westerback 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 t

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
You can still use -j8 while building the kernel though, no races there.

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Joe Gidi
On Tue, February 7, 2012 1:56 pm, Joe Gidi wrote: > On Tue, February 7, 2012 1:45 pm, Kenneth R Westerback 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 t

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-07 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:01:42 +0100, 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

Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-02-07, Joe Gidi wrote: > In every case, when the box hangs, I'm unable to break into ddb. How long do you leave it when it hangs? There have been occasions where a box appears to hang but then recovers. Are you using softdep?

[SOLVED] Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-08 Thread Joe Gidi
On Wed, February 8, 2012 3:25 am, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012-02-07, Joe Gidi wrote: >> In every case, when the box hangs, I'm unable to break into ddb. > > How long do you leave it when it hangs? There have been occasions > where a box appears to hang but then recovers. > > Are you using so

Re: [SOLVED] Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-08 Thread Norman Golisz
Hi Joe, On Wed Feb 8 2012 11:27, Joe Gidi wrote: > On Wed, February 8, 2012 3:25 am, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2012-02-07, Joe Gidi wrote: > >> In every case, when the box hangs, I'm unable to break into ddb. > > > > How long do you leave it when it hangs? There have been occasions > > wher

Re: [SOLVED] Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:52:15 +0100 Norman Golisz wrote: > actually, it's the most reliable way to detect faulty hardware. Memory > testers, if at all, only find specific issues (mostly by writing and > reading bit patterns to RAM). They can't stimulate and stress the > hardware as a build process (

Re: [SOLVED] Re: should 'make -j8 build' work?

2012-02-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:27:14 -0500 "Joe Gidi" wrote: > I actually resolved this by pulling and reseating all the DIMMs. > > Oddly enough, prior to that, the box went through 3 complete runs of > memtest86+ without error, but continued to hang at random spots during > 'make -j8 build'. > By compl

long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-08 Thread Jan Stary
On Feb 08 08:25:49, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012-02-07, Joe Gidi wrote: > > In every case, when the box hangs, I'm unable to break into ddb. > > How long do you leave it when it hangs? There have been occasions > where a box appears to hang but then recovers. > > Are you using softdep? Thi

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-02-08 10.34, Jan Stary wrote: > On Feb 08 08:25:49, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2012-02-07, Joe Gidi wrote: >>> In every case, when the box hangs, I'm unable to break into ddb. >> >> How long do you leave it when it hangs? There have been occasions >> where a box appears to hang but then

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-08 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: > > (For example, I'd love to see Jeff Robertson's and Kirk McKusick's > work on soft update journaling that went into FreeBSD 9 in OpenBSD > as well. Had I the time I'd look into it myself (it's a *lot* of work > from what little I've seen of it, but no

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-08 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-02-09 00.38, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: >> (For example, I'd love to see Jeff Robertson's and Kirk McKusick's >> work on soft update journaling that went into FreeBSD 9 in OpenBSD >> as well. Had I the time I'd look into it myself (it's a *lot* of w

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-10 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:59:36 +0100, Benny Lofgren wrote: On 2012-02-09 00.38, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: (For example, I'd love to see Jeff Robertson's and Kirk McKusick's work on soft update journaling that went into FreeBSD 9 in OpenBSD as well. Had

Re: long hangs with heavy IO (was: should 'make -j8 build' work?)

2012-02-11 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-02-11 03.00, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:59:36 +0100, Benny Lofgren > wrote: >> On 2012-02-09 00.38, Chris Cappuccio wrote: >>> Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: >> But since one hasn't magically materialized yet I've begun to look around >> for