Re: (My) SMP lameness?

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:51:04 +1300


On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:02:33PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:

> That may, make will run up to N gcc, etc. processes at a time and
> you should see a decent improvement...

Actually... because make is recursively called -- it can many many
more processes than you might expect.

I've seen `make -j3 modules' on a daul-P5 with 192MB of RAM start
swapping....

-cw

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