From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Mar 14 23: 7:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDCA37B404 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (smtp1.Stanford.EDU [171.64.14.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F9F43F75 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jstockdale@stanford.edu) Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2F77IHI001506 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from quenya (quenya.Stanford.EDU [128.12.44.61]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2F77HDS001502 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:18 -0800 (PST) From: "John Stockdale" To: Subject: SMP Enabled Make? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:17 -0800 Message-ID: <001101c2eac1$838f0090$3d2c0c80@quenya> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am curious as to whether or not there is a SMP enabled version of make for FreeBSD. I was recompiling my kernel yesterday and the fact that it only spooled onto one processor annoyed me. Now although optimizing an actual compiling operation for SMP is very difficult, is there (or why isn't there) a make that will spool as many gcc operations at once as you specify, or just as many as cpu's exist? Seems that this combined with a ramdisk containing kernel source would take make times from 8 mins down to about 3 (with HyperThreading). Thanks -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message