From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 20:44:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4978E16A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3229743F75 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA58F8C45; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:04:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:04:16 -0400 X-Epoch: 1061348656 X-Sasl-enc: A528S2mXBnVtzZkHGrLlCQ Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.72.99.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.72.99]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D95FEABD; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:03:12 -0400 (EDT) To: Charles Howse , 'Jonathan Arnold' References: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:03:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3060 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make buildworld failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:44:05 -0000 On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:49:38 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: >> > cd /usr/src >> > make buildworld (drat, I should have done make -j4 buildworld!) >> >> Actually, no, don't do the -j4 - I think that's why it worked. >> I was fiddling with the -j flag once and ran into a bunch of >> problems, when it was pointed out that this isn't a "supported" >> way of doing a make buildworld. I stopped using it and all was >> well. > > Very interesting. > On page 490 of "FreeBSD Unleashed" it references the -j4 parameter as a > way to speed up the make buildworld process by spawning multiple > simultaneous processes. > > The same thing is referenced in Chapter 20 of the FreeBSD Handbook. > > Is this now depreciated? Whether deprecated or not, many posts to this mailing list have said -j4 doesn't speed up "make buildworld" anyway, and that's been my experience. I'm sure it depends on your setup. Jud