On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespa...@minibofh.org> writes: >> Lowell Gilbert escribió: >> Wonderful. I've used times the same command (1) without -j flag >> and... it works perfectly! >> It's curious, because of I always use the -j flag in buildworld with >> successs. It has been the first time that I've experienced this >> problem.... > > buildworld is supposed to work with -j, but I've never used a value that > large. Unless you have 8 or more CPU cores available, I would expect > builds to be faster if you reduced that value. >
Running more concurrent processes will use more CPU and more memory (you'd hope, anyways). This could lead it to use bits of hardware with -j 8 that it wouldn't use without it, potentially exposing hardware flaws. Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
