From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 15 9:17:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2B154CF for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id JAA17392; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:17:34 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA16812; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:17:34 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA06645; Wed, 15 Dec 99 09:17:31 PST Message-Id: <3857CD74.5B20CCD3@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:18:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kirby Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using make to allow parallel operations? References: <3857041C.146D0F35@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kirby wrote: > > I am attempting to start a program on a impromptu cluster, one program > per machine. I am using make, and seq from the cluster-it package in the > ports collection. My problem is that make doesn't start the jobs > parallel, it just goes from one to the other. Have you explored pmake, in ports/devel? I use it at work on a large farm of Sun Ultra servers and workstations and it works quite well there. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message