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To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
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Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N?
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 13 Nov 1999 07:46:13 +0100
In-Reply-To: Ben Rosengart's message of "Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:16:42 -0500 (EST)"
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Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> writes:
> 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?

Simple experiments on various machines.  YMMV, but I think that's a
good general guideline.

/assar


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