From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 20 12:15: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9F3153C1 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA17083; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:12:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:12:56 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installworld : problem 2 (parallelism: -j 2/3/4) Message-ID: <19990820141256.F2131@futuresouth.com> References: <199908201238.IAA61761@guest.newton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199908201238.IAA61761@guest.newton>; from Mikhail Teterin on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:38:32AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message