From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 19 15:54:29 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 15:54:26 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from libero.sunshine.ale (ppp-222-114.33-151.iol.it [151.33.114.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1915437B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by libero.sunshine.ale (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 85DF85E2E; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:53:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:53:19 +0100 From: Alessandro de Manzano To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j Message-ID: <20001220005319.A8339@libero.sunshine.ale> Reply-To: Alessandro de Manzano References: <20001218101613.Y19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001219122433.A1961@libero.sunshine.ale> <20001219093858.N19572@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001219093858.N19572@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:38:58AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Sender: aledema@iol.it Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [make -j could be bad] > It's possible for incorrectly set up dependancies to cause files to > be compiled incorrectly. It's also possible that incorrectly set up > dependancies can cause the build to fail. ah, I understand. There is not that can be done (in all sense) to "correct" this behavior ? I mean, definitly it's not necessary "-j" for the life of FreeBSD :), but it's very nice saving so much time and seeing both CPUs working hard :-) > > I did with 8 and now trying with 10 (I've only 96Mb RAM) > > That may be a bit much, if you start swapping because of it > that's one way to know you're using too high of a -j. Of course. with 10 my system swap only for 244K (it's a quite idle machine) thanks for your answer ! -- bye! Ale aledema@iol.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message