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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:24:35 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: 3.0 does not survive make -j [sic] on a kernel tree
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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.