From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 17:40:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.rdc1.on.home.com (femail3.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868ED37B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from magus ([24.114.209.187]) by femail3.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010214014003.LSXD25405.femail3.rdc1.on.home.com@magus>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:40:03 -0800 Message-ID: <002d01c09627$218f3c20$0300a8c0@magus> From: "William Wong" To: Cc: References: <000701c09593$161e0090$0300a8c0@magus> <3A88EAF1.38ABA7BC@urx.com> Subject: Re: make world Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:40:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Kent, I tried this out myself and it looks like -j4 doesn't make much of a difference on my machine. Looks like my findings concur with yours. For those interested this was a compilation of 4.2-STABLE 02-12-2001 on a Pentium 233 MMX 128MB SDRAM. Softupdates enabled on a Quantum Fireball EX 12.7GB. A number of "NO_XXX"'s were uncommented in my make.conf. Uncommented the optimization lines too. -j4 8854.805u 1383.895s 3:02:18.26 93.6% 1365+1524k 46226+4004io 2539pf+0w sans -j4 8740.670u 1243.605s 2:58:05.13 93.4% 1379+1543k 47009+3947io 1970pf+0w ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" To: "William Wong" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:06 AM Subject: Re: make world > > > William Wong wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > Quick question. I know it's usually good to "make -j4 buildworld/kernel" > > (OK'd in the handbook), but is it okay to "-j4" installworld/kernel? > > Not usually. You should also try the build's without "-j4" and see it > they run faster. I time mine by doing something like "time make > buildworld" and the "-j4" was slower on a variety of IDE equiped > systems. The Handbook claims -j4 buildworlds run faster on > uniprocessors but that hasn't been my experience. > > Kent > > > > > Thanks, > > - Will > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message