Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758009AbXETNBc (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 09:01:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755746AbXETNBZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 09:01:25 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:48399 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755649AbXETNBZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 09:01:25 -0400 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive References: <200705201457.26716.rjw@sisk.pl> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:01:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200705201457.26716.rjw@sisk.pl> (Rafael J. Wysocki's message of "Sun, 20 May 2007 14:57:26 +0200") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 16 "Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA > drives > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it > completely unresponsive. I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's > running, I can't log to the box from the network etc. How many processes does it spawn? Try some sane limit. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/