From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 4 20:29:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF7337B403; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdn-ar-008dcwashp040.dialsprint.net ([63.178.91.152] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17FRTq-0003PG-00; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:29:03 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0E66950CB8; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:31:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:31:31 -0400 From: parv To: Chris Pepper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j4 becoming default? Message-ID: <20020605033131.GB6570@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Pepper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <200206040427.VAA18855@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org in message , wrote Chris Pepper thusly... > ... > Is there general agreement that -j is useless on single-CPU > systems? If so, I'll provide a doc patch. another nod to say that -j4 option is slower than w/o on a single cpu machine. i don't have the record, but last time i tried plain make buildworld was faster than -j4. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message