Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:53:19 +0100 From: Alessandro de Manzano <demanzano@iol.it> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j Message-ID: <20001220005319.A8339@libero.sunshine.ale> In-Reply-To: <20001219093858.N19572@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:38:58AM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012181816270.29890-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> <20001218101613.Y19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001219122433.A1961@libero.sunshine.ale> <20001219093858.N19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
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[make -j could be bad] > It's possible for incorrectly set up dependancies to cause files to > be compiled incorrectly. It's also possible that incorrectly set up > dependancies can cause the build to fail. ah, I understand. There is not that can be done (in all sense) to "correct" this behavior ? I mean, definitly it's not necessary "-j" for the life of FreeBSD :), but it's very nice saving so much time and seeing both CPUs working hard :-) > > I did with 8 and now trying with 10 (I've only 96Mb RAM) > > That may be a bit much, if you start swapping because of it > that's one way to know you're using too high of a -j. Of course. with 10 my system swap only for 244K (it's a quite idle machine) thanks for your answer ! -- bye! Ale aledema@iol.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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