Changeset e545529 for chapter08

Timestamp:

08/28/2023 09:01:02 AM (9 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, multilib, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

22c36bb

Parents:

d78b550

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (08/28/2023 08:57:45 AM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (08/28/2023 09:01:02 AM)

Message:

tar: Mention TESTSUITEFLAGS for testing

File:

• chapter08/tar.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/tar.xml

@@ -73 +73 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <!-- On one system the -j4 improvement is 167s - 46s = 121s (72.46%) -->
+    <note><para>The test time for Tar can be reduced significantly on a
+    system with multiple cores.  To do this, append
+    <command>TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j&lt;N&gt;</command> to the line above.  For
+    instance, using -j4 can reduce the test time by over 70
+    percent.</para></note>
+
     <para>One test, capabilities: binary store/restore, is known to fail if it is
     run because LFS lacks selinux, but will be skipped if the host kernel does