From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 13 03:59:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA08587 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 03:59:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08582 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 03:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf85.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.85]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA07459; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:59:16 +0200 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:58:55 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: CVSup/Make World help To: William Woods cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, gekk0@pop.netaddress.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 13 Aug, William Woods wrote: > - > > > If you live in a country, where power-supply sometimes drops: leave out > > the -o asnyc bits...... > > > > I have herd about this, what exactly is async mount? It causes writes to the hard-disc to be 'clustered' and as the compile-process is _very_ I/O-dependend, makes it go faster. I don't think you'd see a big difference under normal circumstances - but while make world, your computer does nothing else and so it really pays. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message