> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:47 AM > To: Gary Thorpe > Cc: Wesley Shields; Ashok Shrestha; Brandon Flowers; Kris > Kennaway; Mike Meyer; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav > Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:49:29AM -0500, Gary Thorpe wrote: > > > >-j is not safe to use with port builds since many ported software > > >contain race conditions in the build. > > > > > >Kris > > > > This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to compile > > FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big > > limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds. > > Yeah, but what do you propose to do about it? We have 14000 ports > that need to be inspected for build race conditions and fixed before > you can turn on -j by default. > > Kris
With a dual processor (even dual core?) is there a way to assign the big make to one processor and to assign the foreground activity (email, edits, etc) to another? Is SMP somehow smart enough to do this automagically? -gayn _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
