On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:32:58PM -0500, Gary Thorpe wrote: > Ashok Shrestha wrote: > >I mounted part of RAM as such: > > > >mdmfs -s 500m md /mnt > > > >Then put WRKDIRPREFIX=/path/to/md in /etc/make.conf. > > > >It substantially reduces compile time by about 5-10 times. > > > > > >Thanx to all ur replies. > > > >-Ashok Shrestha > > An alternative is to try using the "-pipe" flag with GCC: this > eliminates the need to use some temporary files by using a unix pipe for > IPC. Setting another flag "-j 2" will allow 2 jobs to be done at the > same time and should eliminate (by hiding) the I/O delays (this slows > down the CPU slightly because of more task switches, but even with one > job there are still lots of generated tasks).
-j is not safe to use with port builds since many ported software contain race conditions in the build. Kris
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