From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 19:52:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (CPE-61-9-165-100.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.165.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE39137B729 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.sergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2L3qE203232; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:52:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from mark.sergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200103210352.f2L3qE203232@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: , , "Christian S." Subject: Re: Making & forking processes to accomplish faster compiles X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.2 On freebsd Date: 20 Mar 2001 22:52:12 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG make -j4 does speed up things a bit, does it even better on a dual system. On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:39:42 -0500, Christian S. said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greets, > I was told by a friend of mine that he had a way of "make"ing and > having some sort of option to fork the resultant processes so that > instead of 1 make process running, one could split it into 4 separate > processes that would accomplish the "make" faster. I read the man > page for make, but did not find anything really related to it, > although it is entirely possible that I could have missed it. If > someone could kindly point me to a URL or let me know if it was even > possible, I would appreciate it. I would ask the friend, but I have > since lost touch with him. > > Thanks! > Christian > > "...we have only twice as many genes as a fruit fly, or roughly the > same number as an ear of corn, about 30,000." > Ergo, we are all corn. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use > > iQA/AwUBOrgiTikK9qTvGvteEQIO1gCeLV9Fts96IMfhLUNheOp6jwow+vIAoLVJ > 4OKxfZC3XsJTnaVsNfAWWmc4 > =jzRH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will atttempt to use it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message