On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:34:08AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > Ken, when I was building something in BLFS, I think it must have been in > X--it's on the other box, I segfaulted in make. I'd been running with > -j (something). I took that out, let it go back to just one thread and > it ran through fine. Any chance you'd just over-committed the system > running with some additional overhead of being in the chroot?
Paul, to me 'overcommitted' means things like lack of memory (in the strictest sense, our old friend the OOM-killer. There are a few packages with races in their Makefiles, and for those -j1 is necessary, but if I built everything with -j1 I would never finish. On my phenom x4, I and other people have occasionally seen a problem building with -j4, but not with -j3. Certainly, I saw qemu refusing to start (on a box with 8GB of memory) the other month, after I had used it several times, and in the end blamed firefox for leaking memory. So, maybe. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
