Lately, perhaps the last 4-5 Firefox and rust builds, I have never had a single failure. Also I haven’t seen yet a llvm build failure on this machine.
It’s a 20gb laptop, but I always use make_jobs 1. So perhaps it is indeed a resource problem. On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 09:31, Chavdar Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > I used to get this a lot weeks or months ago > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 09:07, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 04:27:29PM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: >> > Oh, duh, I think I remember that the real issue is that you can't run as >> > many $JOBS. Before it would be better about throttling things. >> >> If you have a concrete example (like: on netbsd-8 I can build rust with >> MAKE_JOBS=12 on this machine, while with netbsd-9 I need to lower it to >> MAKE_JOBS=4, otherwise it will {$XYZ,hang,take twice as long} we would >> really appreciate a PR. >> >> For me building rust and llvm (in all variants that appear in pkgsrc) >> has always been a random failure in like 60% of the tries. Additionally >> the firefox build itself hangs with a spinning python27 half of the time
