Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:51:27 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not Message-ID: <20010916205127.L76323@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <auto-000031146370@dc-mx05.cluster1.charter.net> References: <20010916003359.A48953@student.uu.se> <auto-000029926100@dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net> <20010916194305.J76323@leviathan.inethouston.net> <auto-000031146370@dc-mx05.cluster1.charter.net>
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> Then except for a few minutes of compile time, what good is -j<whatever> on > a single processor machine? I've heard 4-6 is good depenging on disk i/o limitions and cpu. > > And why does this discussion arise about every 2 months? Not sure -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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