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Hi,

On 19 Jun 2013, at 18:52, Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> I guess the kernel-toolchain takes a long time to build=85and from =
what I can see it does a clean before rebuilding also.
>>=20
>> I'm doing the kernel-toolchain step only now and will report how long =
it took.

This seems to be it, that took roughly 2 hours to build. The actual =
kernel is probably pretty fast in building.

> Oh.  Without any parallelism (-j X), the build will take a really long =
time.  Even with only one core, you'll get a large speedup by performing =
a parallel build since many steps of the build are I/O bound.

Neither of the systems actually had parallelism defined, either as flag =
or in /etc/make.conf

Jeroen.