From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 08:37:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE7616A41B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3CD13C44B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:1::5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F00CC4001; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:39 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <474D28CD.2050802@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:33 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian References: <474C3A12.9040107@gmail.com> <200711271657.00637.pieter@degoeje.nl> <474CA4E7.9060401@cran.org.uk> <20071127161036.L1233@numail.brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <20071127161036.L1233@numail.brianwhalen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pieter de Goeje , Andy Greenwood , Aryeh Friedman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upper limit on make -j ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:37:41 -0000 Brian wrote: > Isn't 1000 an unrealistically high value? > > Brian On a system with only 2 cores and 2GB RAM - yes. I'm not sure that even with a huge number of cores you'd get much benefit from running such a massively parallel make, unless the build system is more intelligent than I think it is. -- Bruce