From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 25 15:52:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA7437B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.152.235]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010525225213.HOFB7009.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:52:13 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4PMnbN94559; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:49:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001501c0e56c$cdef61e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Jano Lukac" , References: <20010525224738.95909.qmail@web14505.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: make buildworld and -j4 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:48:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is it safe to use the -j4 option with multicpu when doing a make buildworld? > It's mentioned in the handbook that it is an option, but if it has potential to > break something (and force me to redo it all) I'd rather be patient. A make buildworld should be safe with -j4, but I wouldn't use -j4 on make installworld -- at least the first time around. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message