Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911121636580.9104-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <199911121912.MAA18289@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > Generally on FreeBSD machines that are otherwise unused and flush with > memory, the formula I've seen for n is 4 * #CPU. Thank you -- I didn't need a precise answer, just a good heuristic. This will do nicely. -- 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
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