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DateWed, 13 Aug 2003 23:19:53 -0700
FromWilliam Lee Irwin III <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH]O14int
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 01:19, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
>> Normal run of things there is many times 1-3 'make -j6s' running.
>> Yes, sure, for on of them you prob should use -j4, but hey its
>> in the head, right =).  No, it is not kernels, it is a variety

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:48:18PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Actually in benchmarking I've found no increase in speed with more than one 
> job per cpu but it's up to you of course.

I found some strange SMP artifacts that seemed to show a dromedary-like
throughput curve with respect to tasks, with one peak at 4 tasks/cpu and
another peak at 16 tasks/cpu on a 16x box (for kernel compiles).

But I don't consider that evidence of anything to do something about.


-- wli
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