Re: Welcome 5.0

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:20:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> there are also builds where the compiler or other build tool (possibly
> in a bootstrap phase, to the build tool is part of the package itself)
> enter a CPU loop. For such case ulimit -t allows to abort it, but of
> course it delays the whole build.

If you have enough memory in the machine, the usual 2 jobs per CPU helps
against that, but yes, not something to fix in general.

Joerg