Re: make -j with j <= 4 seems to only load a single CPU core

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
>This is quite odd and I've no idea where to start looking for the
>cause, but let me describe what I'm seeing and maybe someone can point
>me in the right direction.
>When I build new kernels I use 'make -j' to get both CPU cores busy
>and minimize build time.
>
I have seen something similar, but at a different point.
Often, `make -j2` makes make run in a way that only one instance of gcc is 
active at a time.


Jan Engelhardt
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