Brian Bobowski wrote: [ ... ]
One thing I have to wonder - how compatible is 'make buildworld' with multiple build processes(e.g. 'make -j4 buildworld')? I know some makefiles don't get along well with the -j parameter, but if buildworld is okay with it, this may offer a way to keep the processor busy rather than waiting for disk access all the time, which could make things faster, especially on such low-memory machines.
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...
-- -Chuck
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