Re: [boost] [log] MSVC 9 build hangs

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] MSVC 9 build hangs
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-01 04:46:30

On Saturday 31 August 2013 19:27:41 you wrote:
> On Saturday 31 August 2013 10:18:52 Tom Kent wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm, then lack of memory should not be an issue. Is CPU count actual?
> 
> Also, is the timeout applied to the whole library compilation or some
> particular stage? Or the whole Boost?
> 
> > As to the 4
> > jobs, are you referring to the -j4 option?
> 
> Yes.

I can see the tests are green now. Thanks for fixing it. Could you tell what 
the problem was?