From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Apr 21 19:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A75137B422; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7ECED6ACBD; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:42:55 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:42:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: John Baldwin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP is stable now. Whee! :) Message-ID: <20010422114255.F51968@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <15074.138.446582.781725@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15074.2220.727775.544765@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15074.2220.727775.544765@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:24:44PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 21 April 2001 at 18:24:44 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > John Baldwin writes: >>> >>> I'm happy to report that with this patchset, plus the >>> cricical_enter/exit changes I just committed, a dual cpu 2100 made it >>> through a buildworld last night just fine ;) >> >> Woo! The dual 4100 here is still cranking through a -j 8 world. > > What's the appropriate -j level for an MP box, anyway? > > I just naively used -j 2. Should I go higher? I've always used 2 * numcpus. If I go higher, it seems to take longer. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message