Upper limit on make -j ?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 27 09:14:41 PST 2007


Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for:
> 
> make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel
> seg faulting

Yes it is. Like others said, obtain as much information about the
problem as you can (backtraces). Try to discover if it fails in make,
gcc or somewhere else.

The ridiculous setting should "do the right thing" which is work very
slowly, but it *should* work.

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