Re: Suspending and resuming compile process
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100
Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> Amit Uttamchandani:
> >
> > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this
> > common practice? Do others do this as well?
>
> I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even
> bother to suspend the process. No problems so far. But I agree it takes
> a while to gain confidence that this really works. :)
IANAE, but I really don't see why there should be any problem with this
sort of thing. Compilation is a pure userspace and conceptually
simple (from a low-level, hardware standpoint, albeit technically quite
complicated from a higher level, algorithmic perspective) task, and I
don't know why there should be any more of a problem suspending and
resuming it than any other userspace process.
Just my $.02, and I may be completely wrong, in which case I do hope
someone will kindly correct me.
Celejar
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