Re: build farm machine using mixed results

On 09/08/2012 04:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Scratch that theory, that was just a transient. If anything it looks
>> like it is related to system load. When almost nothing was running on
>> the machine it worked fine. When I started up a Browser and an MUA the
>> problem occurred. This VM has 4 CPUs and 4Gb of memory and a load
>> average around 0.4 right now. I'm a bit perplexed.
> Hm ... you weren't using the -l (--max-load) option were you?  That
> would make system load affect gmake's scheduling.  Although it's clear
> when I test it that it is waiting for the bison run to finish before
> launching the dependent builds, so it still seems like it must be a bug
> if your copy isn't waiting for that.
>
>             

No. just "make -j 4"

And it's the stock Fedora build of make.

cheers

andrew