Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751764AbWBWTob (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:44:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751768AbWBWTob (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:44:31 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:7349 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751764AbWBWToa (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:44:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:44:24 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jesper Juhl cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: make -j with j <= 4 seems to only load a single CPU core In-Reply-To: <9a8748490602211302j61c0088fp8b555860e928028e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9a8748490602211302j61c0088fp8b555860e928028e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 19 > >This is quite odd and I've no idea where to start looking for the >cause, but let me describe what I'm seeing and maybe someone can point >me in the right direction. >When I build new kernels I use 'make -j' to get both CPU cores busy >and minimize build time. > I have seen something similar, but at a different point. Often, `make -j2` makes make run in a way that only one instance of gcc is active at a time. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/