With the recent commits for bash(r35619), icu(r35627, r35628), & tcpdump (r35700) , Haiku's build system is much more reliable under multiple-jobs. On my i3 (dual core + HT), i've been able to run 6 iterations (and counting!) of this script without failure. Would anyone with quad cores or even i7's be willing to test this script? To note, it needs to be run within the generated folder. {{{ #!/bin/bash set -o errexit JOBS=8 function MultiJobFail() { HAIKU_ATTEMPT=0 while true ; do ((HAIKU_ATTEMPT++)) echo $HAIKU_ATTEMPT rm -rf objects/ rm -rf tmp/ time ((jam -qj${JOBS} &> log) || (sed -n -e '/^...failed/p' log && false)) done } MultiJobFail }}} --mmadia