Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:07:31PM -0400, Jerry McBride took 33 lines to write:
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> 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.

Start with make mrproper, perhaps?

Kurt
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