From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 13:15:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eyelab.psy.msu.edu (eyelab.psy.msu.edu [35.8.64.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB76115151 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Received: from devel-eyelab (dhcp109.baker.ssc.msu.edu [35.8.194.109]) by eyelab.psy.msu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA46799; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:13:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990408161515.00a80c00@eyelab.msu.edu> X-Sender: root@eyelab.msu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:18:13 -0400 To: Doug White From: Gary Schrock Subject: Re: question about make -jn on single cpu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.32.19990408131421.00a9b240@eyelab.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:36 PM 4/8/99 -0700, you wrote: >> This machine is a p2-350, 64M ram, 7200 rpm ide drive, dma not enabled >> (I've had problems with dma, so I don't have it enabled right now). > >Your bottleneck is I/O; increasing -j increases the I/O load on the build, >and your system can't take it. Hmm, so if I get dma working I might have more luck? Just now searching about people that have had problems with dma turned up a reference that some of the seagate 7200 rpm drives have problems with ultradma, so I guess I need to be contacting them about this problem. (Certainly explains why every time I try enabling dma support under Windows I end up trashing the registry). Thanks, as usual, you're right there with all the answers on hand. I for one, definitely appreciate it. Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message