Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:24:35 +0300 | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | 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.
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