Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:03:11 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>, 'Jonathan Arnold' <jdarnold@buddydog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make buildworld failure Message-ID: <oprt6ijlb00cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> References: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:49:38 -0500, Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> wrote: >> > cd /usr/src >> > make buildworld (drat, I should have done make -j4 buildworld!) >> >> Actually, no, don't do the -j4 - I think that's why it worked. >> I was fiddling with the -j flag once and ran into a bunch of >> problems, when it was pointed out that this isn't a "supported" >> way of doing a make buildworld. I stopped using it and all was >> well. > > Very interesting. > On page 490 of "FreeBSD Unleashed" it references the -j4 parameter as a > way to speed up the make buildworld process by spawning multiple > simultaneous processes. > > The same thing is referenced in Chapter 20 of the FreeBSD Handbook. > > Is this now depreciated? Whether deprecated or not, many posts to this mailing list have said -j4 doesn't speed up "make buildworld" anyway, and that's been my experience. I'm sure it depends on your setup. Jud
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