On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:33:53AM +0200, Mattias Ellert wrote: > My Debian installation is a virtual machine using one CPU, so this is > the setup I always use for local builds. The build has never failed for > me on it. Running multiple threads on the one CPU is still faster than > running a single thread.
Ok, but still the package assumes that the CPU performance remains constant or between some limits during the package build. The same machine could be doing a lot of other things in addition to building the package, or it could be a virtual machine with a lot of other neighbours that we don't even know what they do. Thanks.