In response to Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:44:42PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to "Daniel Tourde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have at my disposal an Inspiron 9400 with an Intel Core FreeBSD > > > 6.2 > > > is installed and rebuilt to fit the processor. The kerne l is in SMP > > > mode. > > > I noticed something strange: When I compile using ma in the ports > > > tree, I only have 50% load. CPU1 is used at CPU0 is idle... > > > > How do you know this? > > > > > I tried make -j2 but it did not work, Any idea? > > > > -j2 does not guarantee that you'll use both CPUs. It's entirely possible > > that the IO is slow enough that both of the processes are waiting on disk > > and only able to push the overall system usage to 50%. Try make -j99. > > make -j in the ports tree is not going to compile the source in > parallel, it is going to try and run the port targets in parallel (but > they cannot be parallelized so nothing special will happen). In > theory it might work on some ports to pass in MAKE_ARGS=-j2, but a > huge number of ports cannot be safely be compiled in parallel > (i.e. the build will fail) because their developers have not added > support for this.
Good point. I was assuming that you were doing "make -j2 buildworld". -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
