Re: CentOS Stream installation

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 16:55 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-02-05 at 23:46 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Paul Smith wrote:
> > > How many CPUs did you give to the VM?  It shouldn't matter since
> > > we're doing multiprocessing here but... maybe...?  I was using 4G
> > > RAM and 4 CPUs in my guest.
> > 
> > I am using 1 CPU in that VM.
> 
> For some completely unfathomable reason if I reduce my CPU count to 1
> then I also see these failures on CentOS Stream 8 (haven't tried any
> others)!!
> 
> I'm going to look into it and see if I can find something.

I believe I have a fix for this.  It worked reliably on a 1 CPU system
after 15 runs.

This is actually a real issue that might reduce the amount of
parallelism we could achieve, even on multi-CPU systems, so a good
find.