Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:00:06 -0400 | From | William Park <> | Subject | Re: Dual Athlon MP 1900+ on MSI K7D Master-L |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:14:30PM -0500, Kelledin wrote: > On Thursday 18 July 2002 08:31 pm, Dieter N?tzel wrote: > > Alan, were should I put the "-j2/-j3" make flag for the kernel > > compilation? /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.txt is way > > outdated ;-( ... > In general, I find it best to set the number of jobs to the > number of CPUs _plus 1_--i.e. for single CPU, use make -j2, and > for dual CPUs, use make -j3. Going for that "plus 1" makes most > builds just a smidgen faster. For me, on my dual PPro box, the > process would be something like: > > make menuconfig > make -j3 MAKE="make -j3" dep clean bzImage modules
I usually have better luck if I use only one target per 'make': make menuconfig make -j3 dep make clean make -j3 bzlilo make -j3 modules make -j3 modules_install Especially, 'modules' and 'modules_install' must be done separately.
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