From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 18:19:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69B515089 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA07483 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 03:18:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA89883 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 02:29:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: make -j while building and installing world Date: 7 Oct 1999 02:29:03 +0200 Message-ID: <7tgpgf$2nod$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <01bf100f$e90a8d80$0000e9c1@serv2.binep.ac.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: > Can -j N option for make be used when building > and installing world on the uniprocessor machine? Yes. > If yes, for what processor (486, 586, etc.) it makes > sence to use it, and with what N? Hard to say. On a single CPU machine, the only point is to keep the CPU busy even when one process is waiting for I/O. I doubt that N > 2 makes much sense. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message