Re: buildworld -j N issues

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 21, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Some issues are cropping up with what I believe are buildworld -j N
>     bugs, due to the new scheduler ordering processes somewhat 
> differently
>     then the old scheduler.
>
>     I'm working on the correct set of .ORDER: directives in the .mk 
> files
>     to fix the problem.
>
>     If you have problems doing buildworld -j N, just do the buildworld 
> without
>     the -j N.  I expect to commit fixes later this evening (I'm running
>     buildworld -j 4's on four different machines in a loop to try to 
> locate
>     all the ordering issues).
>
> 						-Matt


Great! , this has always been a problem dating back to FreeBSD. The
problems seem to happen almost at random, I guess depending on
things like buffer cache state to affect the atomicity of the operations
such at mkdir. Thanks

-DR