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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: problem building X11 R4
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Date: 29 Oct 90 20:20:32 GMT
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Well, I'm trying to building the X11 R4 sources on our DN3000's, 3500's, and
2500's without much luck.

What happens is that the "make World" gets all the makefiles built, the dependencies
done, and the includes included, and then sits down to do the actual compilations. At
this point the machine is running 4 copies of "make" ("make World" runs "make ./X" which
runs "make X/lib" which runs ...). What seems to happen is that after a dozen or so files
have been compiled, the machine begins to sit around for 10 to 20 seconds between each
"rm" and each "cc" in the lowest level makefile. /com/dspst -a shows a process name
"--nil--", one of the copies of "make" getting about 10% of the CPU, and about 100 pages/sec
of network traffic -- mostly page requests. The page purifiers aren't running though, so
it doesn't seem likely that the machine is page thrashing. More likely, its reading stuff
out of the X source code directories ... but what? After a while, the machine will eventually
crash (which is why I'm currently running the "make" on a diskless workstation!). Has anyone
seen this sort of behaviour? Do you know how to get around it?


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