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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

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David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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