From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.0 does not survive make -j [sic] on a kernel tree
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:24:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120204002435.GA3054@p183.telecom.by> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVYSo+5mHjQp54YFrmHXXf0ugj2N4D4aFek-vMvZ5QD9Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:18:28PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> make clean ; make -j hangs quickly, 100% reproducibly. The system
> answers pings but is otherwise completely unresponsive. The
> softlockup detector output and eventual oom is below. The system does
> not appear to recover.
>
> The correct answer is "don't do that". But this seems like poor behavior.
"make -j" is like fork bomb.
But if you turn on heavy debugging options, system might actually survive
to the completion.
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