Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:22:10 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD 9.1.0 - make buildworld running for 1.5 hours??? Message-ID: <CAHHBGkouRBOf01TXXiz%2B5dbiBVFB2pZyx_pjzRX732rWvggFsQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BdUSyrpE9TFRTb-xaKKnY%2B5MZLuDM0eJ8isrHPGT-U84H6WAw@mail.gmail.com> References: <1BBFCBC0B60383A7EC5EC83C@utd71538.campus.ad.utdallas.edu> <1362177513.29467.21.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <CA%2BdUSyrpE9TFRTb-xaKKnY%2B5MZLuDM0eJ8isrHPGT-U84H6WAw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7 March 2013 08:09, George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi > <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> wrote: >> Em Sex, 2013-03-01 =E0s 12:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl escreveu: >> >>> I'm running make buildworld on a quad processor quad core box with 16GB= of >>> ram, and it's been running already for more than an hour and a half. H= as >>> world really gotten that huge? Good lord! Good thing we have >>> freebsd-update! >>> >> >> Perhaps you did not use the -j option on the make buildworld... >> >> >> env NOCLEAN=3Dyes DESTDIR=3D make -j 4 buildworld >> >> without the -j option it runs on only one processor and can take up to 5 >> hours... >> >> >> >> Sergio ... > > You can easily go to -j16 if the box is not doing anything else. With 16 cores I'll bet the bottleneck is IO. If it were me, I'd do the build in a tmpfs(5). --=20 --
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