From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 11:21:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1954637B406 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdprophet.org (orange35.theshop.net [206.30.142.228]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8FIL2t40031; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:21:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Scott@bsdprophet.org) Message-ID: <3BA39C45.F135E9D4@bsdprophet.org> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:21:57 -0500 From: Scott Corey Organization: Open Source Education Foundation osef.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: make buildworld with -j4 option References: <20010915141800.719c44b5.nmace85@yahoo.com> 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 I always use -j4 option when building. I have had no adverse reactions or bad builds because of the -j option. Give it a try, if is doesn't work, then just go back to not using it. All it can do is help speed up the process. I also never do a "make -j4 world". I use the two step process of "buildworld" then "installworld". I would try both ways and see which is faster. Scott Nathan Mace wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message