From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 25 0:16:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C99937B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3D743E75 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:16:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7P7GZTJ091507; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:16:35 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:16:35 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error making buildkernel In-Reply-To: <3D67F466.5000108@owt.com> Message-ID: <20020825111419.U23521-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: KS> > does the same error occur if you omit the "-j 4" and do only KS> > "make buildkernel" KERNCONF=GENERIC should be the default. KS> > KS> > Look at the handbook regarding the "j" Parameter: KS> > KS> > Be aware that this is still somewhat experimental, KS> > and commits to the source tree may occasionally break this feature. If KS> > the world fails to compile using this parameter try again without it KS> > before you report any problems. KS> KS> KS> It has also been my experience that on single cpu systems no "-j" runs KS> as much as 10% faster on buildworlds. Hmm, it depends ;-) According to my own experience, machines with modern (damn fast ;) CPUs and moderately-fast IDE disks win 3-5 mins (8-12%) in buildworld, possibly due to descreased total IO wait time... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message