Re: make doc problem

[Julien Rioux]

On 26/01/2012 6:14 PM, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Julien Rioux wrote:
> > On 22/01/2012 2:58 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:
> > > Thanks, you're quite right CPU is not the limiting factor for the build.
> > > Disk access and usage of swap when compiling
> > > input/regression/collated-files slows down the build to a crawl for me.
> >
> > Could we redistribute the regression test input files into
> > subfolders of say ~50 files each, possibly sorting them into
> > categories if it makes sense?
>
> Wanted to do that for ages, but that's not something to get into
> now.  But this shouldn't be an issue -- don't we split it into
> lists of IIRC 300 files?  We had some kind of emergency bugfix
> like that.
> ... yeah, see make/lysdoc-rules.make
>
> You may want to look into that; perhaps changing the division from
> 300 to 50 would speed up the build?
>
> - Graham

The `echo' command-line is broken down into 300-file chunks. They all 
still end up into one collated-files.tely

Anyway, it kind of sounds like a workaround or an emergency action as 
you say. Were the memory released at each snippet then it shouldn't be 
an issue.

Cheers,
Julien