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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:58:34 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Frederico Costa <fredports@mufley.com>
Cc:        Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance Related Question
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302271551320.57262@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <95256df2d5f04884368acf0f73bb82d0@www.mufley.com>
References:  <8d801e895617b492ddf724b6ce980448@www.mufley.com> <op.ws6rcqqsg7njmm@michael-think> <95256df2d5f04884368acf0f73bb82d0@www.mufley.com>

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Frederico Costa wrote:

> On 2013-02-27 22:27, Michael Ross wrote:
>> If I read you right, you didn't ``make -jX buildworld'',
>> with X being the number of processes to spawn,
>> so you used just one core on either machine.
>> 
>> Buildworld does a lot of I/O, so disk speed is relevant.
>
> Yes, i just made "make buildworld".
>
> So i should use make -j2 on the S1(dual core) and -j4 on S2 (2xdualcore)?
>
> And it also makes sense what you say about the I/O.

It really depends on the system.  On my dual-core systems, I use 
devel/ccache and found that -j8 gave the best performance.



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