From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 22 12:51: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (www.transbay.net [209.133.53.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D200837B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from borges.codysbooks.com (stalwart.codysbooks.com [209.133.54.175]) by transbay.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g0MKovh13497 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:50:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:56:45 -0800 From: Scott Reese To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j4 world Message-Id: <20020122125645.1a0c9b36.sreese@codysbooks.com> In-Reply-To: <3C4DCDE7.C5E77C03@math.missouri.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020122145124.03cd1380@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20020122145124.03cd1380@marble.sentex.ca> <5.1.0.14.0.20020122151930.03d62220@marble.sentex.ca> <3C4DCB91.7080701@owt.com> <3C4DCDE7.C5E77C03@math.missouri.edu> Organization: Cody's Books X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:39:03 -0600 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On the "Error in make buildworld" thread I said that I had this problem > on 1 out of 3 machines, so you may not necessarily see this problem. I > only saw this problem on the fastest machine. > I've actually found that on a fast computer (1.6 GHz Pentium IV) using the "-j" flag tends to slow things down a bit. The standard "make buildworld" ran much faster and much more smoothly than "make -j4 buildworld." It was the same with kernel builds. Honestly, with a machine that fast, I don't really see a need for the "-j" flags anyway. Just my $.02. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message