Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:57:21 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@myrealbox.com> Cc: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu>, Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <861wz2u9am.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <43D11499.8040808@myrealbox.com> (Gary Thorpe's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:49:29 -0500") References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> <86ek34d35f.fsf@xps.des.no> <17359.49899.183831.844670@bhuda.mired.org> <86k6cww445.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060119175224.GA71633@csh.rit.edu> <79e2026f0601191215p117d78ebjbee2c4b710075154@mail.gmail.com> <43D0139A.1040601@myrealbox.com> <20060119230604.GA98670@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D11499.8040808@myrealbox.com>
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Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@myrealbox.com> writes: > This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to > compile FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big > limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds. We cannot be held responsible for race conditions in the Makefiles of third-party software. > Is "-pipe" still a good idea? It should provide a significant > performance boost, if the process is spending a lot of time doing disk > I/O, without using up a lot of memory. -pipe is fine. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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