Re: 2.1.120-pre3 on IBM netfinity 7000 - impressive

Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Fri, 4 Sep 98 21:58 MET DST

In article <19980904181310.W26420@suse.de> you write:
>After increasing NR_TASKS to 2000 and /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 16384
>(/proc/sys/fs/inode-max to 49152) I was able to compile 2.1.120-pre3 using
>"make -j". Load went up to 170 but the compile completed successfully.
>You need about 800 MB RAM to compile a kernel with "make -j".

With kernel 2.0.x and kernels before 2.1.117 256 MB RAM were sufficient
for "make -j". I think this is very strange and I wonder what caused
this?

I have a dual P-200 MMX with "only" 256 MB RAM. I'm unable to compile
2.1.1[7-9] with more than 6 concurrent tasks (make --jobs=6).

hjb

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