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Re: Welcome 5.0



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:58:24PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:20:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > there are also builds where the compiler or other build tool (possibly
> > in a bootstrap phase, to the build tool is part of the package itself)
> > enter a CPU loop. For such case ulimit -t allows to abort it, but of
> > course it delays the whole build.
> 
> If you have enough memory in the machine, the usual 2 jobs per CPU helps
> against that, but yes, not something to fix in general.

I guess it requires one master and one slave (or one master and 2 slaves) ?

Maybe I should reorder how I do it then: instead of one CPU per version
I should spread all the version combinations on all the CPUs.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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