In src/src/distrib/sets/Makefile:
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revision 1.56
date: 2007/03/10 20:34:57; author: apb; state: Exp; lines: +5 -2
branches: 1.56.4; 1.56.10; 1.56.12;
Serialise making the "sets" tarballs in the maketars target.
On many systems, making them in parallel causes very poor
system performance due to disk I/O. (Requested by jmmv.)
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On my development system this adds a lot of time to a release
build, and I'd
like to revert it. My system is not affected, but if it were I
don't see
why any of these would not be a valid solution:
o use smaller value for -j
o analyze the problem on the affected systems
o buy more spindles
i agree; i didn't like this change when it went in because it also
made my own build slower.