> 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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