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Subject: Re: [boost] [log] MSVC 9 build hangs
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-31 11:18:52


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Many test results for Boost.Log on teeks99-03b-win2008-64on64 [1] show that
> the build aborts due to timeout. From the test setup description (2 GiB of
> RAM, 2 CPUs, 4 build jobs) it seems that the problem could be in the
> insufficient system resources. 4 jobs building Boost.Log can easily exceed
> 2
> gigs of RAM, especially considering some of the memory is reserved by OS
> and
> other programs. If there isn't any swap, the build may be just aborting,
> and
> if there is, it's probably performing dead slow. And 2 cores might also be
> too
> limiting.
>
> Could the tester take a look what is happening on that setup? If it's not a
> resource problem, then I would appreciate any information on the problem.
>
> [1] http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/log.html
>
>
>
It has 6GB of ram, not 2, I need to update the info page on it. As to the 4
jobs, are you referring to the -j4 option?

Tom


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