In the last episode (Jan 30), Emiel Kollof said:
> Just a question: It seems while building a port, the ports system
> somehow spawns hundreds and hundreds of copies of make (even so much
> that they start hitting system limits). What's causing it, and how do
> I make it stop doing that.
>
> Number of procs in top(1) shoot up into the ranges of 600+ procs (and
> usually defunct). Load average sometimes jumps up into the 100+ (I
> kid you not). I doubt that that is desired operation. I only started
> seeing this behavior when I switched over to CURRENT, but this mail
> is cc'd to ports@ too, just in case. It makes using portupgrade(1) as
> tense as a good thriller flick (will my system survive? The
> suspense!)
I've had that happen when I put typos in /etc/make.conf (i.e. syntax
errors or HAVE_/WANT_ variables that don't belong there).
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Dan Nelson
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