Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:48:57 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Aniruddh Singh <aps@jobsahead.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High load
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:17:09 +0530 Aniruddh Singh wrote:

>  
> > > > for measuring IO performance, I'd recommend tiobench over hdparm any day
> > > > ( http://tiobench.sf.net )
> > > 
> > > i will do it, can you please tell me why load goes high when i compile
> > > kernel (10 and above)
> > 
> > thats really odd, unless you do a "make -j", in which case of course
> > it's expected ;)
> yes i always use make -j option ??

With or without a following integer?

See 'make help':
  -j [N], --jobs[=N]          Allow N jobs at once; infinite jobs with no arg.

so use make -j N to limit the number of makes/compiles etc.
or use 'make -j' to go ballistic.

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~Randy
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