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

Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-20T13:01:32Z

"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.
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Krzysztof Halasa