Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:30:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installworld : problem 2 (parallelism: -j 2/3/4) Message-ID: <199908202330.TAA00830@misha.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <19990820141256.F2131@futuresouth.com> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Aug 20, 1999 02:12:56 pm"
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Matthew D. Fuller once wrote: > > On my dual CPU system installworld fails when run with -j flag. > > Buildworld is fine with `-j 8', but installworld does not handle > > even `-j 2'. Here is the tail of the -j2 run: > Out of morbid curiosity, why exactly do you run -j'd installworlds? > Installworld is practically 100% diskbound, I'd expect it to run > SLOWER when it's parallelizing and seeking back and forth between > multiple installs at once. I did not run actual comparisions, but it would seem, there is some CPU work during installworld, especially with the -C flag. In any case, I usually do ``make world'' and the -j flag applies to both -- build and install. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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