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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:24:34 +0100
From:      Alessandro de Manzano <demanzano@iol.it>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make -j
Message-ID:  <20001219122433.A1961@libero.sunshine.ale>
In-Reply-To: <20001218101613.Y19572@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:16:13AM -0800
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012181816270.29890-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> <20001218101613.Y19572@fw.wintelcom.net>

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> The rule with -j is that it _should_ work, if it doesn't then try
> without -j and let us know.

I did a buildworld/buildkernel last week with "-j 8" on my dual celeron system and all, apparently, went fine.
It saved about 30-40% of time. Version 4.2-stable.

Could someone, please, explain to me why the "-j" stuff could be dangerous ?
It's not much clear to me why doing more then one "cc" (example) at time could break the final object code.
(no flame, it's a very honest question! :-) )

TIA a lot! :)

> 4-8 is good for a single processor with enough ram (gcc is large),
> 4-24 is ok for a SMP box.

I did with 8 and now trying with 10 (I've only 96Mb RAM)


-- 

bye!

Ale

aledema@iol.it



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