Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:10:09 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: "Adam D. Marks" <amarks@ecst.csuchico.edu> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make question Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990928210159.1170A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.05.9909281741370.2480-100000@pegleg.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Adam D. Marks wrote: > Now I was told when running make to use the -j option. But I have tried > numbers from 1 to 20 it seems the larger the number the faster it gets. Is > there a convention I should be following to utilize the smp in compiles? The -j option controlls the maximium number of jobs that make will spawn. If you don't supply one, it does every thing serially, and you won't benefit from the second CPU. The point at which you see the biggest benefit will depend on what the limit on performance is. In my machine, the limit is almost always disk performance. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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