Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:19:53 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]O14int |
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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.
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