Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:51:04 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: (My) SMP lameness? |
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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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