On 05/05/2013 09:57 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
This sounds like a bad idea to me, and not just because the locking mechanism is dodgy. Is the problem more widespread than just your laptop? Does it affect other host OSs? Linking multiple frontends at once doesn't lock up my desktop PC, so I'd rather not have it disabled.
Part of the issue is that I build with -g3, which greatly increases the memory consumption at link time. And builds are sharing 4GB with everything else I want to run.
I would be happy to have the mechanism off by default and manually enabled by people in my situation.
Why don't you just nice your build shell? Shouldn't that make the rest of your system responsive?
I don't think that helps much with swap thrashing, though I could be wrong. Jason
