From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 11:15:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03781 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03774 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26198; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:15:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > So here's my question: would make buildworld or make installworld choke up > > > badly if I put the object dir ${WORLDTMP} under usr/src? > > Your performance would probably go down the tube, but I couldn't see why > > it wouldn't work; the subdirs are hardwired. > Why would my performance go down the tube? Putting the object files and source files on the same disk causes contention for the disk device, hurting build times. It's best to have src and obj on different disks. This applies generally for simultaneous access for other instances, ie databases. Of course this only applies to SCSI, IDE doesn't support disks doing their own things independently. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message