Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-20T13:18:50Z

On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> 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