From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 11 14: 4:23 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 7B39C14EF1 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:04:14 -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 RAA00999 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:11:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:11:45 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? 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 Does anyone know of a method for determining the optimal number of concurrent jobs with which to make world (or anything else for that matter), given the amount of RAM, speed of processor, version of FreeBSD, speed and layout of disk(s), etc.? -- 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