Subject: Re: i386 MP performance (generic.mp and generic almost same)
To: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
From: David Holland <dholland+netbsd@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/11/2007 13:05:30 
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:11:12AM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
 > Another setting that I haven't used, but sounds promising based on 
 > what's in mk/defaults/mk.conf, is MAKE_JOBS, which adds a -j<whatever> 
 > to the individual package builds.  However, it says it's experimental, 
 > so I have no idea how well it works in practice.

It doesn't, because in general most people don't write parallel-safe
makefiles.

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   - David A. Holland / dholland+netbsd@eecs.harvard.edu