On 7 March 2013 08:09, George Kontostanos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Em Sex, 2013-03-01 às 12:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl escreveu: >> >>> I'm running make buildworld on a quad processor quad core box with 16GB of >>> ram, and it's been running already for more than an hour and a half. Has >>> world really gotten that huge? Good lord! Good thing we have >>> freebsd-update! >>> >> >> Perhaps you did not use the -j option on the make buildworld... >> >> >> env NOCLEAN=yes DESTDIR= make -j 4 buildworld >> >> without the -j option it runs on only one processor and can take up to 5 >> hours... >> >> >> >> Sergio ... > > You can easily go to -j16 if the box is not doing anything else.
With 16 cores I'll bet the bottleneck is IO. If it were me, I'd do the build in a tmpfs(5). -- -- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
