make buildworld run twice as fast

Jose Borquez bsdlists at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 1 13:19:14 PST 2005


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 thoughts or experiences with this?
Thank you,
Jose


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