Re: bin/43697: "No such file or directory" on build.sh -j 128

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/43697; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/43697: "No such file or directory" on build.sh -j 128
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 03:23:08 +0000

 On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:30:05PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  >  At a guess this is a side effect of hitting some limit on
  >  the number of processes the user is allowed.
  >  
  >  You need a LOT more than 128!
 
 I was running some excessively parallelized builds to burn in some new
 machines a couple months ago, and at least once forgot to adjust
 maxproc, and it doesn't cause this behavior.
 
 I fixed the problem I ran into at the time, too, so unless this is a
 newly invented parallelism bug in bsd.lib.mk I vote for it being tmpfs
 lossage.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost