On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA > > drives > > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it > > completely unresponsive. I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's > > running, I can't log to the box from the network etc. > > How many processes does it spawn? Try some sane limit.
Do you think it works as a fork bomb? Well, it didn't work like that before, AFAIR, but then 2.6.21 also does it with the same settings, so sorry for the noise. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/