From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 12 22:22:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5913BF9 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:22:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-da0-x22d.google.com (mail-da0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4DEC17 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-da0-f45.google.com with SMTP id v40so125870dad.4 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:22:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Rh3zYWCacFAEugkS1GgjwX9ocFg1fN8UqbhzMQn3Oo4=; b=ygb2YEFp1Dp1uBZXcz/9St/0nK89nyLlSv121HXeUnKMxO9gZYaBXtSvWAtx6r1SZ1 NPURiTkQrr6cY2i1S008600sGu6anLwnSWI5xhqchnP0728sHuGHWU82EOYyICjuK0/r IVpIHSHOsCiU1XbR37hV87g285gq48I/15x3n6z0epR5PPsR1wmYnn1aZeLYAHRbR3l1 KQ2qjWL64DWO1RELmqvk+Jj3mR+2skbkoaNA7JyTEyXbnvrcawuwswNFiZPAjymVacfF Z2tEDTTVB1uWIi5c0by/CQmuE15L4jpfM5YkX2MYLcEc9iCZh1qu1efUz/V4Qd5xGtgL C4Lg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.129.73 with SMTP id nu9mr40411173pbb.57.1363126930961; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.82.106 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:22:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1BBFCBC0B60383A7EC5EC83C@utd71538.campus.ad.utdallas.edu> <1362177513.29467.21.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:22:10 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FBSD 9.1.0 - make buildworld running for 1.5 hours??? From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: George Kontostanos Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Questions List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:22:11 -0000 On 7 March 2013 08:09, George Kontostanos wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi > 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 --