I did an update to pybombs two days ago, and immediately gnuradio got to around 57% completion and just hung my Ubuntu 13.10 computer so hard, I couldn't get it to respond to ctrl-alt-del for over half and hour.
I tried again after doing a force rebuild on gnuradio and it was worse. I long-hit the power button to do a reset.
I checked the pybombs defaults and it is makewidth = 4, but it certainly acts like it is ignoring this and doing
make -j
. Further symptoms include a nonstop, hard green LED on disk writes on a 8 GB system. I have never seen it actually go to a major use of virtual memory (if that is what is happening) until now.
I went into src/gnuradio/build and did a manual make -j4 and it worked perfectly, thus my diagnosis.
Bob
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