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[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> On 2014-08-22 01:10, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
> Serial execution is useful for both resource-constrained environments and
> for folks trying to profile the build itself.  Serial build is also likely
> to be optimal if you are optimizing for total energy used rather than total
> wall clock time.
>
>  If you are in a resource-constrained environment you can easily set
> either --with-jobs=1 to configure or JOBS=1 to make and get a serially
> executed build. Also, if configure doesn't find a lot of memory or cpu
> cores, the default number of jobs will get set to a small value, even 1 if
> needed.
>
>
Increasingly I am living in a world where I have more than enough CPUs, but
not enough RAM.  Chrome eats it all!  Don't know what configure or make
could do about that problem - it's a tough one.


> There are tricks to profiling the build in place already. If you run with
> LOG=trace on a machine with gnu time installed, you will get a special log
> file containing the wall clock time for each command executed, both in
> recipes and $(shell). I use this frequently when trying things to optimize
> build performance.
>
>
Thanks.  I see you have done an excellent job documenting "make help".

But fix the typo below: s/build/built/
.  make bootcycle-images  # Build images twice, second time with newly
build JDK