Re: bin/53285: Build times tripled with make/job.c 1.193

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, sjg%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
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Subject: Re: bin/53285: Build times tripled with make/job.c 1.193
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 09:14:31 -0400

 On May 13, 12:50pm, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/53285: Build times tripled with make/job.c 1.193
 
 | Before giving up completely, perhaps it would be worth trying changing the
 | "sleep(1)" into a much smaller usleep() or nanosleep() - which would have
 | the same effect, of avoiding busy waiting, while not adding nearly as much
 | delay (if it happens that the sleep needs to be a second occasionally, then
 | that might mean 100 * usleep(10000) rather than 1 sleep(1), but it seems that
 | most of the time, the wait does not need to be nearly that long).
 
 Or change this into a better/cheaper form of IPC? Sleeping without someone
 to wake you up does not sound right.
 
 christos