From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 15 14:55:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11545 for current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11540 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id RAA19804 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:55:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: make -j# under 2.2-CURRENT... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... I decided to play around with this -j# option with make to compile the kernel, and found that -j2 and -j3 are worse then no -j at all: no -j: 1189.676u 105.610s 24:38.83 -j2: 1214.136u 121.934s 24:37.94 -j3: 1232.782u 127.352s 25:46.48 This is on a 486DX4-100 with 32Meg of RAM, using the same kernel sources each time... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org