Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272220AbTHNGSt (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:18:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272168AbTHNGSs (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:18:48 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:40120 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272220AbTHNGSl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:18:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:19:53 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH]O14int Message-ID: <20030814061953.GL32488@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list References: <200308090149.25688.kernel@kolivas.org> <200308120033.32391.kernel@kolivas.org> <1060615179.13255.133.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <200308121545.52042.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308121545.52042.kernel@kolivas.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 22 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/