Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 03:07 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Is anyone else here having problems compiling kernel 2.6.9 or later?
>
> I've got one box that will compile a 2.6.8 kernel perfectly... But when I
> through the 2.6.9 kernel sources at it... make bzImage runs crazy, creating
> hundreds, maybe even thousands of parallel processes until the box comes to
> a screaming slow down, very nearly dead... If I can catch it early and
> issue a ctrl-c I can kill off the parent make and then I can watch as
> hundreds of make processing finish.... It's crazy.
>
> Reinstalling the main compile components (make, gcc, binutils, etc)  hasn't
> helped a bit.
>
> Under man make, it states that a "-j" on the make commandline will allow
> make to run an unlimited number of processes... grep-ing through the kernel
> 2.6.9 scripts has not turned up a singe instance of the truncated -j
> command...
>
> Anyone have a idea?

Have compiled it on two boxes here with no problems.


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