On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:38:35AM +0100, Robert Luciani wrote: > I was under the impression that all build scripts were simply single-threaded. > Including the following in mk.conf should help a bit: > MAKE_FLAGS+=-j5 > Last time I uncommented it in my setup though, it made many packages break > during compilation.
This is about running multiple independent builds at the same time. 4/8 single threaded builds are good enough to ensure that the cpu are kept busy. Joerg