From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 4:51:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (mail2.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4797137B4C5; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 04:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-63-164-15.bna.bellsouth.net [208.63.164.15]) by mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id HAA04352; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:51:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A0AA034.6BA51DFF@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:01:40 -0600 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Otter , Roman Shterenzon , Makoto MATSUSHITA , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We cannot use 'make -j' option to build the world, period. References: <002d01c04a11$83b376d0$aa240018@cx443070b> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > Regarding the -j option, I seem to remember someone telling me that > > option was only for make buildworld/installworld and not the modules > > or anything else. > > This information is outdated I believe. This used to be true however, I can > attest to having built 4.x worlds with -j 4 many times. I built 4.2-BETA on two different SMP machines with -j6 and -j8, dependant upon the amount of ram in the machine. Both ran buildworld without a problem. -- Drew Sanford lauasanf@bellsouth.net or drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message