Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Joachim [iso-8859-1] Strömbergson wrote: > > > Just for kicks I tried doing a 'make -j4 buildkernel' with KERNEL=SNP40 > > in /etc/make.conf and /boot/loader.conf. It works, that is the make > > finished without crashing. I dunno if the binary works, nor if the > > compile was substantially faster. So, superficially, parallel make of a > > kernel does work. > > Yes, there is no reason why this should not work. > > > It sure consumed a lot of resources for a few minutes though. My SETI > > run ran sloowly. > > Well, wouldn't you kind of expect this given what you asked the system to > do (namely run 4 tasks at once)? However, -j4 is often slightly faster > even on uniprocessor systems than -j1 (or "no -j") because it doesn't have > to wait on Disk I/O. YMMV, of course. I do make -j4 buildworld and kernel for month w/o any problems and is really faster than -j1. even on a P166 uniprocessor. Cyrille. -- home:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Supprimer "%no-spam" pour me repondre. work:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "%no-spam" to answer me back. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
