Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 09:58:08 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: src/Makefile all sorted out. Message-ID: <5158.876157088@time.cdrom.com>
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OK, /usr/src/Makefile should be both properly "parallelized" and merged now. As most folks have already figured out, -j4 seems to help uniprocessor boxes to build the world faster (mostly because a typical compile spends a lot of its time waiting for I/O) though much past -j4 and it becomes a question of diminishing returns. I've tried -j6, -j8 and -j12 just for laughs on a P6/200 with 128MB of memory and the build time did, indeed, increase past -j4. My SMP box is still in the process of being constructed, so you'll have to wait before I can tell you whether or not -j8 follows this trend for 2 P6/200 CPUs. :-) Jordan
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