On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:26:19 -0700
> > From: tom honermann <tom.honerm...@oracle.com>
> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> >
> >
> > On 3/18/2010 2:22 PM, Thiago C. Santini wrote:
> > > Yeah, that was my first thought when using -j, 8 processors each one
> > > with hyper-threading should be optimized with 16 jobs but when testing
> > > it I got better results with 32 jobs and that was working just fine
> > > till last week, so I just sticked to it =p
> > >
> > > Is there anyway to find out if it really was a kernel panic? Like a
> > > log or something? Any link to good tutorials about debugging a crash
> > > are welcomed aswell :-) I guessed it was a kernel crash because even
> > > the video signal was killed once(the screen wouldn't show anything at
> > > all).
> > >
> > > The real problem is that the machine crashed when there was more than
> > > one person working over ssh and I thought maybe someone was compiling
> > > at the same time as me and that made too many jobs.
> > >
> > You may be falling victim to the kernel OOM killer
> > (http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer)
>
> If processes are killed by OOM Killer, there's a prominent message to
> that effect in the system logs (/var/log/messages or some such).
> Search for "oom" (IIRC) in the log.
>

No such thing on any log. Grepped for both "oom" and "IIRC".
No new crashes happened after I started using -j 16, and since I don't have
time nor experience to debug this I'll leave it alone for a week or two and
start getting to know the kernel better and then try debugging it again.

Thanks for the help.
-- 
Thiago C. Santini
ECP/07
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