Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:17:18 -0400 From: Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@cogeco.ca> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make buildworld.........24 hours???? Message-ID: <4183864E.30500@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <418384E9.8010601@mac.com> References: <1099096228.18749.149.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> <20041030003606.GA60037@xor.obsecurity.org> <41838096.2080902@cogeco.ca> <418384E9.8010601@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Using -j is recommended only when you have lots of memory and can keep > all of the processes resident in memory. Trying to run a parallel > build on a low-memory machine is almost certainly going to be much > slower, since you are going to swap more, not less. > > Time it for yourself and see... > Ah, thanks for the clarification. I'd seen it cited as a way to deal with the delay caused by file access, but I guess it does make sense that it would apply to the actual filesystem rather than swap. -BB
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