On 9/29/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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. I'd be interested in non-memory-based DESTDIR, too, since there's certainly the possibility, for install, to slow things down with -j because of additional HDD seeks and such. Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov > ru_at_FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer > > >Received on Fri Sep 29 2006 - 17:05:00 UTC
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