On 4 Oct 2010, at 18:46, Kevin Mai wrote: > I'm trying to do a "make buildworld" to build some jails on a Dell R710 > server. > > It has 16 cores: > > [r...@mrefns09 ~]# sysctl hw.ncpu > hw.ncpu: 16 > > but, when doing running the "make buildworld" command: > > last pid: 77993; load averages: 1.07, 1.03, 0.95 up 38+01:12:10 17:42:09 > 87 processes: 2 running, 85 sleeping > CPU 0: 1.9% user, 0.0% nice, 2.6% system, 0.0% interrupt, 95.5% idle > CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6% idle > CPU 2: 1.9% user, 0.0% nice, 2.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 95.9% idle > CPU 3: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 4: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 5: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 6: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 7: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 8: 90.6% user, 0.0% nice, 5.6% system, 0.0% interrupt, 3.8% idle > CPU 9: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.3% idle > CPU 10: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 11: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 12: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 13: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 14: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > CPU 15: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > Mem: 159M Active, 6514M Inact, 782M Wired, 126M Cache, 827M Buf, 324M Free > Swap: 8192M Total, 44K Used, 8192M Free > > I see that there's no multithreading when running make.. is there a way to > enable multiprocessing when running make?
Try 'make -j16 buildworld'. 16 is the maximum number of parallels processes that make is going to run. Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
