From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21938 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2012 14:56:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 21923 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Dec 2012 14:56:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_VIA_APNIC X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from comm.purplecow.org (HELO comm.purplecow.org) (210.87.62.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:56:16 +0000 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from comm.purplecow.org ([127.0.0.1]) by comm.purplecow.org (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0MFD00E18YTQ6210@comm.purplecow.org> for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:56:14 +1100 (EST) Received: from comm.purplecow.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=comm.purplecow.org) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:56:14 +1100 Received: from [204.225.63.10] by comm.purplecow.org (mshttpd); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:56:14 -0500 From: Dennis Clarke To: tprince@computer.org Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Message-id: Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:56:00 -0000 Subject: Re: parallel testsuite results differ from a single task approach In-reply-to: <50D45DAA.40308@aol.com> References: <50D45DAA.40308@aol.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-12/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 > How are we to know what you aren't telling? I am generally very detailed in that regard. I think that I will refrain from running gmake -j X for X > ( number of cores available -2 ) and then the problem may go away. Otherwise a single "gmake" is safest. Slow. But safe. dc