From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 17:51:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1BC1065675 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:51:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@reiteration.net) Received: from lon1-post-2.mail.demon.net (lon1-post-2.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366108FC16 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from potato.growveg.org ([62.49.247.163]) by lon1-post-2.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1Q0HLr-0003Od-Zv for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:51:11 +0000 Message-ID: <4D824A02.6090302@reiteration.net> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:50:58 +0000 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110302 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4D7FBC0E.5020302@reiteration.net> <1468BFDD-5E3C-4756-830B-266D0942AED0@mac.com> <4D802299.1020303@reiteration.net> <4D80977B.3090801@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4D80977B.3090801@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: can make -j be used for ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:51:12 -0000 On 16/03/2011 10:56, Matthias Andree wrote: > /etc/make.conf: > > FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes > MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=3 # whatever you find useful. > > The key is that you need to figure how loaded the CPU is. As long as it > is waiting for the disks (which it usually is), you can try to increase > the number, but keep an eye on the RAM, you don't want the machine to go > swapping in and out (although 8 GibiB are plenty). Thanks very much for this. -- John