From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 20 16:51:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B9414E81 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:51:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA70531; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:51:03 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld : problem 2 (parallelism: -j 2/3/4) Message-ID: <19990820165103.A70433@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <19990820141256.F2131@futuresouth.com> <199908202330.TAA00830@misha.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908202330.TAA00830@misha.cisco.com>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:30:38PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:30:38PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > 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. To do just about anything in our source tree or ports collection, make(1) has to parse a lot of Makefile lines. On my slow CPU with decent I/O, "make installworld" and "make clean" are quite CPU-bound. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message