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

On Saturday 31 August 2013 10:18:52 Tom Kent wrote:

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Andrey Semashev

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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.