make buildworld.........24 hours????

[Chuck Swiger]

Brian Bobowski wrote:
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>    One thing I have to wonder - how compatible is 'make buildworld' with
>    multiple build processes(e.g. 'make -j4 buildworld')? I know some
>    makefiles don't get along well with the -j parameter, but if
>    buildworld is okay with it, this may offer a way to keep the processor
>    busy rather than waiting for disk access all the time, which could
>    make things faster, especially on such low-memory machines.

Using -j is recommended only when you have lots of memory and can keep all of 
the processes resident in memory.  Trying to run a parallel build on a 
low-memory machine is almost certainly going to be much slower, since you are 
going to swap more, not less.

Time it for yourself and see...

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-Chuck