linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

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Message-Id: <200705201523.55981.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 15:23:55 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> writes:
> 
> > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA
> > drives
> > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it
> > completely unresponsive.  I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's
> > running, I can't log to the box from the network etc.
> 
> How many processes does it spawn? Try some sane limit.

Do you think it works as a fork bomb?  Well, it didn't work like that before,
AFAIR, but then 2.6.21 also does it with the same settings, so sorry for the
noise.

Greetings,
Rafael
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