Re: make buildworld run twice as fast

2005-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote: > I recently rebuilt my FreeBSD system from sources and it took around 2 > hours on an old PIII 800MHz pc to run "make buildworld". If I include > the -j option to run multiple processes as once such as "make -j2 > buildworld" does t

make buildworld run twice as fast

2005-12-01 Thread Jose Borquez
I recently rebuilt my FreeBSD system from sources and it took around 2 hours on an old PIII 800MHz pc to run "make buildworld". If I include the -j option to run multiple processes as once such as "make -j2 buildworld" does that mean it would finish in half the time? Does anyone have any thoug