Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:59:29 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911111758230.99311-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <5ld7tg8wy5.fsf@foo.sics.se>
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On 11 Nov 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> writes: > > Does anyone know of a method for determining the optimal number of > > concurrent jobs with which to make world (or anything else for that > > matter), given the amount of RAM, speed of processor, version of > > FreeBSD, speed and layout of disk(s), etc.? > > Try it and measure? D'oh -- I *meant* to add "besides trying different values and measuring" -- if I had that much time on my hands, I wouldn't be worrying about how long a make world takes. :-) -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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