Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs issue

[Tom Rondeau]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Robert McGwier <address@hidden> wrote:
> I did an update to pybombs two days ago, and immediately gnuradio got to
> around 57% completion and just hung my Ubuntu 13.10 computer so hard, I
> couldn't get it to respond to ctrl-alt-del for over half and hour.
>
> I tried again after doing a force rebuild on gnuradio and it was worse.  I
> long-hit the power button to do a reset.
>
> I checked the pybombs defaults and it is makewidth = 4, but it certainly
> acts like it is ignoring this and doing
>
> make -j
>
> .  Further symptoms include a nonstop, hard green LED on disk writes on a 8
> GB system.  I have never seen it actually go to a major use of virtual
> memory (if that is what is happening) until now.
>
> I went into src/gnuradio/build and did a manual make -j4 and it worked
> perfectly, thus my diagnosis.
>
> Bob

Yep, making with an unnumerated -j is really dangerous, even on very
high-end systems.

There was another report about issues with makewidth, so that needs
looking into.

Tom