From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 10:14:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A1116A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp18.wxs.nl (smtp18.wxs.nl [195.121.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A8843D1D for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from ronald.echteman.nl (ip51cdc5d2.speed.planet.nl [81.205.197.210])2004))freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:14:47 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 12708 invoked from network); Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:46 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.thuis.klop.ws) (192.168.1.4) by ronald.echteman.nl with SMTP; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 1069 invoked from network); Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:44 +0000 Received: from localhost.thuis.klop.ws (HELO smtp.local) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.thuis.klop.ws with SMTP; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:44 +0000 Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:14:42 +0100 From: Ronald Klop In-reply-to: <20041125092855.GA64481@xor.obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (FreeBSD, build 751) References: <41A2C5C0.3080908@yahoo.com> <2566.10.0.0.26.1101241872.squirrel@10.0.0.26> <41A3EA0F.3080500@yahoo.com> <41A58766.8030607@yahoo.com> <20041125092855.GA64481@xor.obsecurity.org> cc: Rob cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port make index (was: Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:14:48 -0000 On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:28:55 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:09:35AM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: > >> Would all this work for 'make index' for the ports also? Or is this more >> io bound? >> I can't test this myself, because my laptop is to slow for making these >> tests any fun. > > Based on my tests, 'make index' is only faster with -j on smp machines > (the default is -j2, which only penalizes UP by a second or two, but > nearly halves the build time on an smp machine). But -j1 saves on mem usage on UP I presume, so it makes my workstation more useable while being 2 secs.faster. Is this set by an INDEX_JOBS make var in /etc/make.conf? Found it in /usr/ports/Makefile. Ronald. -- Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands