Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:46:29 +0100 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -j 4 is really make -j 8 for buildworld? Message-ID: <20040114184629.GA27639@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <17255.1074061572@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114001713.40206A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <17255.1074061572@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:26:12AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The N in -jN is a relative measure of parallelism which has nothing
> to do with how many processes are run. That depends on parallism in
> the Makefiles and how subdirs are entered.
Hmm.. From the manual page:
-j max_jobs
Specify the maximum number of jobs that make may have running at
any one time. Turns compatibility mode off, unless the B flag is
also specified.
'maximum number of jobs' seems to be quite clear to me... Or is the -j
propagated into subdirs ?
Zlo
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