port make index (was: Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated)

[Ronald Klop]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:28:55 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:09:35AM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
>
>> Would all this work for 'make index' for the ports also? Or is this more
>> io bound?
>> I can't test this myself, because my laptop is to slow for making these
>> tests any fun.
>
> Based on my tests, 'make index' is only faster with -j on smp machines
> (the default is -j2, which only penalizes UP by a second or two, but
> nearly halves the build time on an smp machine).

But -j1 saves on mem usage on UP I presume, so it makes my workstation  
more useable while being 2 secs.faster.
Is this set by an INDEX_JOBS make var in /etc/make.conf? Found it in  
/usr/ports/Makefile.

Ronald.

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