Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758363AbXETNSu (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 09:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755879AbXETNSn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 09:18:43 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:42788 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755910AbXETNSn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 09:18:43 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:23:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton References: <200705201457.26716.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705201523.55981.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 22 On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "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. Do you think it works as a fork bomb? Well, it didn't work like that before, AFAIR, but then 2.6.21 also does it with the same settings, so sorry for the noise. Greetings, Rafael - 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/