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SubjectRe: make -j with j <= 4 seems to only load a single CPU core
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On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 22:10 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> I should probably mention that the kernel I'm currently running and
> observing this behaviour with is 2.6.16-rc4-mm1.
...
> > I find this quite strange since anything from 'make -j 2' and up
> > should be able to keep both cores resonably busy, but there seems to
> > be a huge difference between j <= 4 and j > 4.

I've seen the same thing (on Athlon 64x2 64 bit)
but was not sure if it was a problem.

The break point for me seems to be between -j 2 and -j 3
-j 2 = serialized (or the appearance of)
-j 3 = both cores mostly busy

I'm pretty sure with an earlier 2.6 kernel source (but same environment)
I did not see this. I'll start back tracking to earlier kernels
to see if I can identify when this started.

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Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd

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