Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:52:54 -0400 From: Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@cogeco.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make buildworld.........24 hours???? Message-ID: <41838096.2080902@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <20041030003606.GA60037@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1099096228.18749.149.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> <20041030003606.GA60037@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
That's not unreasonable - the performance killer will be your lack
of
memory, which means that you'll be swapping a lot while compiling.
Kris
One thing I have to wonder - how compatible is 'make buildworld' with
multiple build processes(e.g. 'make -j4 buildworld')? I know some
makefiles don't get along well with the -j parameter, but if
buildworld is okay with it, this may offer a way to keep the processor
busy rather than waiting for disk access all the time, which could
make things faster, especially on such low-memory machines.
-BB
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