On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:09:42AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: [...] > I tend to agree with that basic philosophy. From other items in the > thread, it was clear this came up in the context of build release, > which benefits from -j usually. The installworld phase in that should > be as robust as possible as well, since otherwise we have issues with > the actual release. Unless it is a big win (more than a few percent), > I'd imagine the right fix is to the release target to not do a > parallel installworld. I know that in the build scripts that I wrote > in 3.x days and have ported forward since then I've never done a > parallel install, due to it rarely working reliably in that (long) > time span... > They are safe to do nowadays. I'll do some measurements on real SMP with the memory-based DESTDIR, and let you know the numbers. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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