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

[Brian Bobowski]

Chuck Swiger wrote:

> 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...
>
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I'd seen it cited as a way to deal 
with the delay caused by file access, but I guess it does make sense 
that it would apply to the actual filesystem rather than swap.

-BB