From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 11 15: 9:47 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 A0F6214F77 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:09:43 -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 SAA01466; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:16:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:16:42 -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: <5lzowk7hvl.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 12 Nov 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Other than that, I think the > `make -j4' suggested for a single CPU in the handbook is a fairly good > approximation. On what basis? I usually use larger values, like 12, on the theory that I have more than enough memory, and if there's free CPU, there should always be a process available to use it. -- 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