Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:59:35 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: John <comp.john@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911241257480.53949@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20091124174025.GC91657@potato> References: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091124163718.GB91657@potato> <4B0C1249.1090600@lazlarlyricon.com> <20091124174025.GC91657@potato>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, John wrote: > Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main > machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will > be easier to make portmanager rebuild everything in pristine mode. It > will take a long time, but I accept this. Before this is done, I run the > built-in routines in /usr/ports - clean out */work/* and distfiles. > > It's a fast machine though - shouldn't take too long. What I'm thinking > about now is speeding up make. There are two cores in this CPU. Can I > specify -j2 ? Is it one per core or more? This is now supposed to happen automatically on ports that are safe to build with multiple jobs. Offhand I don't know how to show what's really happening other than something crude like watching top. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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