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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



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