Re: Bug in GNU make if -j used with very high values

2024-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 15:29 -0500, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Debian GNU/Linux 12 with default settings, the command: > >    make -j 7 > > hangs. This is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?66499

Bug in GNU make if -j used with very high values

2024-12-18 Thread Dianne Skoll
Hi, On Debian GNU/Linux 12 with default settings, the command: make -j 7 hangs. That's because make tries to fill a pipe with 70,000 '+' characters to act as a counting semaphore to limit the number of spawned processes, but the default capacity of a pipe is 64K. I recommend initially o