From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 12 7:22:11 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 13EF81500F for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:22:07 -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 KAA06674; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:28:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:28:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: Robert Watson Cc: Kip Macy , 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > Well, presumably at some point your memory working set exceeds your CPU > cache, and that begins to hurt. And then at some point your working > memory pages exceed the available space, and you begin to page. I've been working with systems with 512 MB or more of RAM, so that hasn't been an issue. -- 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