From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 11:11: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB7D37B40B for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.225) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 18:10:59 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:18:00 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd newbies Subject: make buildworld with -j4 option Message-Id: <20010915141800.719c44b5.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org according to the handbook making buildworld with -j4 will make it go faster...even on single cpu machines. but according to some messages i've read on this mailing list, that it not true, and even slows it down. so what should i use to get the fastest compile time? i have pentium2-300 and 176 megs of ram nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message