Clarification Of -jX Argument For buildworld/kernel

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Wed Jul 21 14:17:29 UTC 2021


Is it still advisable to explicitly declare the numer of make processes
when doing buildworld/buildkernel or are the defaults best left alone?

I am trying to suss through a 13-STABLE build problem to see if using -j4
on a 4 core machine is causing a race condition of some sort...

Thanks,
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