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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:12:56 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installworld : problem 2 (parallelism: -j 2/3/4)
Message-ID:  <19990820141256.F2131@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908201238.IAA61761@guest.newton>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:38:32AM -0400
References:  <199908201238.IAA61761@guest.newton>

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On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:38:32AM -0400, a little birdie told me
that Mikhail Teterin remarked
> 
> On  my  dual CPU  system  installworld  fails  when  run with  -j  flag.
> Buildworld is  fine with `-j 8',  but installworld does not  handle even
> `-j 2'. Here is the tail of the -j2 run:

Out of morbid curiosity, why exactly do you run -j'd installworlds?
Installworld is practically 100% diskbound, I'd expect it to run SLOWER
when it's parallelizing and seeking back and forth between multiple
installs at once.



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