From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 11 14:52:37 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 BC7C814F3E for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:52:34 -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 RAA01313; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:59:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:59:29 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: Assar Westerlund Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? In-Reply-To: <5ld7tg8wy5.fsf@foo.sics.se> 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 On 11 Nov 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Ben Rosengart 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? D'oh -- I *meant* to add "besides trying different values and measuring" -- if I had that much time on my hands, I wouldn't be worrying about how long a make world takes. :-) -- 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