Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 98 21:58 MET DST | From | (Hans-Joachim Baader) | Subject | Re: 2.1.120-pre3 on IBM netfinity 7000 - impressive |
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In article <19980904181310.W26420@suse.de> you write: >After increasing NR_TASKS to 2000 and /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 16384 >(/proc/sys/fs/inode-max to 49152) I was able to compile 2.1.120-pre3 using >"make -j". Load went up to 170 but the compile completed successfully. >You need about 800 MB RAM to compile a kernel with "make -j".
With kernel 2.0.x and kernels before 2.1.117 256 MB RAM were sufficient for "make -j". I think this is very strange and I wonder what caused this?
I have a dual P-200 MMX with "only" 256 MB RAM. I'm unable to compile 2.1.1[7-9] with more than 6 concurrent tasks (make --jobs=6).
hjb -- "Every use of Linux is a proper use of Linux." -- John "Maddog" Hall, Keynote at the Linux Kongress in Cologne
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