From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 11 16:14:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBD914FC3 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA16356; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:13:58 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:13:58 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kip@luna To: Ben Rosengart Cc: Assar Westerlund , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: ben@skunk.org,assar@sics.se,hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Diminishing *marginal* returns I can live with, but I wonder if this > strategy is actually hurting me, rather than merely failing to help > much. That is a better way of putting it. At some point you returns are negative. -Kip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message