From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Nov 1 12:12:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05189 for smp-outgoing; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 12:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA05165 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 12:12:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 826 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Nov 1997 20:12:22 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-103097 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5168.878410338@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 12:12:22 -0800 (PST) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Some SMP timing tests. Cc: smp@freebsd.org, Wolfram Schneider Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Jordan K. Hubbard; On 01-Nov-97 you wrote: > > If you have a Makefile with 5 targets (e.g. 4 *.c files, 1 manpage), > > make can only create 5 jobs at once. Not surprising ;-) > > A good point, but this doesn't quite explain the behavior during > compiling things like libc, which has many targets which could be > parallelized. Didn't Sequent, during the early Symetry days do a lot of work in this area? Maybe somebody from nCUBE is reading this. They have done lots of work in this area too. --- If Microsoft Built Cars: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313