From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 0: 6:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7E9B37B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:06:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16007 invoked by uid 0); 13 Feb 2001 08:06:10 -0000 Received: from dsl1-160.dynacom.net (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2001 08:06:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3A88EAF1.38ABA7BC@urx.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:06:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Wong Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world References: <000701c09593$161e0090$0300a8c0@magus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Wong wrote: > > Hey, > > Quick question. I know it's usually good to "make -j4 buildworld/kernel" > (OK'd in the handbook), but is it okay to "-j4" installworld/kernel? Not usually. You should also try the build's without "-j4" and see it they run faster. I time mine by doing something like "time make buildworld" and the "-j4" was slower on a variety of IDE equiped systems. The Handbook claims -j4 buildworlds run faster on uniprocessors but that hasn't been my experience. Kent > > Thanks, > - Will > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message