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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:35:01 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: The "right" way to build a new world WAS: 4.3-BETA world crashin g 4.2-RELEASE kernel ? 
Message-ID:  <200103231835.f2NIZ1912015@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:52:17 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010323125054.28869D-100000@fledge.watson.org> 
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010323125054.28869D-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert Watson writes:
: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > You'll also get better milage out of make -j N (say 3 or 4) and doing
: > things sequentially.  It is safer and runs just as fast. 
: 
: Dunno if it was a temporary compile problem, but I've actually found that:
: 
:   make -j 3 buildkernel
: 
: hasn't worked properly for me.  Either it was a temporary thing and may be
: fixed now, or it's a property of the buildkernel dependencies, and should
: probably be fixed (my kernel build is substantially faster with just a bit
: of parallelism to keep the CPU busy).

I think that it works.  I know that the "old way" works with -j values
up to 20 (haven't tried anything higher).  There were issues with -j
for a while, but those have been fixed.  They were inadvertantly
introduced when we went to building modules.

Warner

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