Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not

2001-09-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:38 PM -0400 9/15/01, Mike Tancsa wrote: Should a parallel build always work ? I was just trying to stress a new series of MB we are evaluating and to my suprise, -j4 works, but not -j8 Well, in a philosophical sense, yes it should always work. Bugs creep into the process from

Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not

2001-09-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:06 PM 9/15/2001 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: What happens if you remove all of /usr/obj/usr/src before trying to build with -j8? I did each time. One poster pointed out, the CPU type was wrong. It should be i686, not 686. This is on a DURON 900 with AOPen Duron specific MB. I just

Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not

2001-09-15 Thread mikea
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:06:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:38 PM -0400 9/15/01, Mike Tancsa wrote: Should a parallel build always work ? I was just trying to stress a new series of MB we are evaluating and to my suprise, -j4 works, but not -j8 Well, in a philosophical sense,

Re: make -j4 vs -j8... 4 works, but 8 does not

2001-09-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:06:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: [aside on those multiple builds that I did: It was interesting that even though it was on a dual-processor system, there was not much of a speed improvement (on 4.3-stable) when going from -j4 to -j10. Big improvement going