Re: recurring tstile hangs on -current

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:44:37AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> wrote:
> >I've set up a new machine for bulk building. I have tried various
> >things, but in the end it always hangs in tstile.
> >
> >First try was what I currently use: tmpfs sandboxes with nullfs
> >mounted /bin, /lib, ... When it hung, the suspicion was that it's
> >nullfs' fault. (The same setup works fine on my current machine.)
> >
> >The second try was tmpfs with copied-in /bin, /lib, ... and
> >NFS-mounted packages/distfiles/pkgsrc (from localhost). That also
> >hung. So the suspicion was that tmpfs or NFS are broken.
> >
> >The last try was building in the root file system, i.e. not even a
> >sandbox (chroot). The only tmpfs is in /dev. distfiles/pkgsrc/packages
> >are on spinning rust, / is on an ld@nvme. With 8 MAKE_JOBS this
> >finished one pkgsrc build (where some packages didn't build because of
> >missing distfiles, or because they randomly break like rust). When I
> >restarted the bulk build with 24 MAKE_JOBS, it hung after ~4 hours.
> 
> Is a bulk build trying to make packages in parallel ?

No.

> If so, then I'm guessing that the multiple instances of cp(1) are
> putting the package tarball into the same directory somewhere.

I guess this is just the installation of the boost-headers.

Also, I think that multiple programs writing different files in the
same directory should work ;-)
 Thomas