From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 12 13:30:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D138215035 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:30:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09242; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:37:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: Warner Losh Cc: Assar Westerlund , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? In-Reply-To: <199911121912.MAA18289@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > Generally on FreeBSD machines that are otherwise unused and flush with > memory, the formula I've seen for n is 4 * #CPU. Thank you -- I didn't need a precise answer, just a good heuristic. This will do nicely. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message