Per Jessen wrote: > I use "make -jN" quite a lot for parallelizing many jobs (all kinds, > not just compile jobs). The output is obviously jumbled, and it's not > really very useful as such. I don't mind that - I usually finish off > such a parallel run with a single job that logs the status of the > rest. However, when I run such a parallel make via cron, the output is > not > just jumbled, it's garbled. Lines are overwritten, lines are mixed, > lines are missing, in particular my final status output. Has anyone > else experienced this and what have you done about it (if anything) ?
I'm beginning to think this problem is about more than just garbled output. We do a daily run of about 5000 jobs, each involving 4-5 files+dependencies and associated commands. This works just fine when run one-by-one. This weekend we switched to using -j4 to speed up things, but I've just now had to revert to one-by-one mode. I've not yet investigated the problem, but when running with -j4, a lot of the jobs were simply not run or only partially done. I'm not entirely certain about how to track this down - your thoughts would be much appreciated. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
