Large parallel glibc builds.

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"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> writes:

> On 12/22/2015 03:10 PM, Carlos Eduardo Seo wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/22/15 5:25 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> Community,
>>> 
>>> I am consistently doing parallel (-j56) builds for glibc on Intel
>>> Xeon CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz (2 socket x 14 cores x 2HT).
>>> 
>>> I have not seen any failures or artifacts that look like hazards or
>>> races in our makefiles.
>>> 
>>> Is anyone else using larger boxes for builds and still seeing 
>>> problems?
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Carlos.
>>> 
>> 
>> No, I've been doing -j80 builds on POWER8 just fine. I could run a
>> test on larger systems, if you wish.
>
> If you have a chance it would be good to collect a little more data.
>
> We will also get some larger boxes to double check.

We also have a POWER7 build slave running with with -j128 since Jan/2013
without problems.
>From time to time, a testcase fails.  In some cases, due to a timeout.
For the record, in this particular server, we're still using PARALLELMFLAGS.
But we don't use it on other servers.

What kind of data are you looking for?

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Tulio Magno