Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Creager <robert(at)logicalchaos(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results
Date: 2012-09-09 15:45:43
Message-ID: 504CB9A7.5040004@dunslane.net
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On 09/09/2012 11:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah. I am going to add a config parameter to the buildfarm to allow
>> parallelism for the "make" and "make contrib" stages, but I'm not going
>> to release it until this is fixed.
> Well, why don't we stick .NOTPARALLEL in there for the moment, and then
> if Peter thinks of a better solution, he can revert that change in favor
> of something cleaner.

Works for me

>
> I assume we need this for all active branches, if the buildfarm is
> going to be stressing it?
>
>

I can restrict it to only modern branches. Didn't we supposedly improve
support for this during the 9.1 cycle? That seems like a sensible place
to go back to.

cheers

andrew

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