On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:36:03PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > 2) compiler used to build kernel and is it SMP?
> >
> > gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
> >
> > I've no idea if that compiler is SMP, if you want I'll ask someone else.
>
> I was asking if the running kernel were SMP or not, I'll assume it is
> :-)
Oh, sorry, that sentence structure confused me (not a native speaker).
> > There doesn't appear to be a pattern, on this machine at least - I just let
> > the buildd run, building whatever comes up, and after a few hours it
> > inevitably runs into a wall.
>
> If you try, within that troublesome build-root, a few times to try to
> fork off a couple hundred:
>
> dpkg-query --something python-2.5
>
> or whatever, can you get some of processes to wedge under that
> build root?
I did this in a chrooted bash:
for i in $(seq 0 100); do (dpkg-query -s python2.5-minimal > /dev/null &); done
And now the machine went catatonic. :(
Thankfully the console is still vaguely operational - I can enter my
username to log in, but I can't get the Password prompt to appear.
Magic SysRq still works - if you need any output from it, tell me.
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