From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 16 18:51:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508AD37B414 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B343910F4C1; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:51:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:51:27 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Dave Uhring Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , Cyrille Lefevre , Erik Trulsson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not Message-ID: <20010916205127.L76323@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Dave Uhring , "David W. Chapman Jr." , Cyrille Lefevre , Erik Trulsson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010916003359.A48953@student.uu.se> <20010916194305.J76323@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Then except for a few minutes of compile time, what good is -j 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. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message