Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-08 Thread John Summerfield
> Newer versions check the number of CPUs and set the -j value accordingly. > I'd be quite happy with the old way. This might be a better solution: alias rpm='nice -n 1 rpm' Even better, for rpm to do it internally. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support. Conf

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-07 Thread Kevin Waterson
Matt Wilson wrote: > Newer versions check the number of CPUs and set the -j value accordingly. I have a number of IPC servers, these contain dual Intel P133 processors. When installing RH 6.1 the install seems to assume the processors are PPro and of course will not boot, however, it will boot a

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-07 Thread Matt Wilson
Newer versions check the number of CPUs and set the -j value accordingly. Matt On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:25:22AM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:14:43PM -0400, Adrian Likins wrote: > > > > > > > vim /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.2.spec > > > > go to line 257 o

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-07 Thread Patrick J. Lawrence
> Perhaps REDHAT could either modify, or at least comment, the spec > file. src.rpms are such a nice way of doing things. Newer releases actually check the number of CPUs that you have and act accordingly (at least the SRPM with Lorax did -- I haven't looked at the Cartman SRPM.) Pat -- Patrick

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:14:43PM -0400, Adrian Likins wrote: > > > > vim /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.2.spec > > go to line 257 or so... > > %ifarch i386 i586 i686 > make -j 4 bzImage MAKE="make -j 4" > %else > > > replace 'make -j 4 bzImage MAKE="make -j 4"' with 'make

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Adrian Likins
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:01:11PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > I have posted this problem on several lists but am not getting any > answers. Sorry if this is not the best place to ask this, but thought > someone here might at least point me in a good direction. > > I am trying to build 2.2.5-2

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:05:04AM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Note the cc1 STATE column and memory/cpu columns. There are 200 or so > > total processes at this point, most from from the kernel build. What > > makes cc1 so hungry? It doesn't seem

Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
I have posted this problem on several lists but am not getting any answers. Sorry if this is not the best place to ask this, but thought someone here might at least point me in a good direction. I am trying to build 2.2.5-22 kernel from RH src.rpm on an Intel P166 with 128M ram and 128M swap. My