Date: 7 Oct 1999 02:29:03 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j while building and installing world Message-ID: <7tgpgf$2nod$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <01bf100f$e90a8d80$0000e9c1@serv2.binep.ac.ru>
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Igor B. Bykhalo <goshik@binep.ac.ru> wrote: > Can -j N option for make be used when building > and installing world on the uniprocessor machine? Yes. > If yes, for what processor (486, 586, etc.) it makes > sence to use it, and with what N? Hard to say. On a single CPU machine, the only point is to keep the CPU busy even when one process is waiting for I/O. I doubt that N > 2 makes much sense. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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