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To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
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Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N?
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 11 Nov 1999 23:50:26 +0100
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Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> writes:
> 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.?

Try it and measure?

/assar


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