RE: problem with parallel builds on AIX

2002-03-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
No. There is only one issue I know of with the implementation of the jobserver in 3.79.1: it allows signals to interrupt system calls throughout the program. This can impact things like readdir(), etc. But, while this does cause some problems sometimes I've never known it to cause a jobserver h

RE: problem with parallel builds on AIX

2002-03-08 Thread Olausson, Per-Anders
Title: RE: problem with parallel builds on AIX   No I don't think it was spinning.   Just to make sure I'm not misinterpreting what you meant:   Is waiting for tokens to appear a known problem?   Regards,   Per -Original Message- From: Paul D. Smith [mai

Re: problem with parallel builds on AIX

2002-03-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Olausson, Per-Anders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: op> Is there a known problem with running parallel builds on AIX? Not that I'm aware of. op> Unfortunately, I have not yet made a core of the processes or op> observed whether the jobserver is spinning or not Likely it's waiting for