Re: build farm machine using mixed results

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Scratch that theory, that was just a transient. If anything it looks 
> like it is related to system load. When almost nothing was running on 
> the machine it worked fine. When I started up a Browser and an MUA the 
> problem occurred. This VM has 4 CPUs and 4Gb of memory and a load 
> average around 0.4 right now. I'm a bit perplexed.

Hm ... you weren't using the -l (--max-load) option were you?  That
would make system load affect gmake's scheduling.  Although it's clear
when I test it that it is waiting for the bison run to finish before
launching the dependent builds, so it still seems like it must be a bug
if your copy isn't waiting for that.
        regards, tom lane