Re: soft updates performance

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:36:40PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> With how many running processors?  If you're running -j4 on a
> uniprocessor system, you're only introducing competition for already
> scarce CPU resources, though -j2 can be a speedup since this allows
> one target build to run while another is in an I/O wait.  I've only
> seen a speedup with -j4 when using at least 2 CPUs.

Interesting.  When I asked about optimal values on this list maybe a
year ago, I was told that -j(4 * NCPU) was a good choice.  I guess that
doesn't work for NCPU == 1.

-- 
 Ben

"I told Paddy no, I told Steve no, I told Paul no, and Ben fell asleep."
                   --Kate C. (no, different Ben, I would have stayed up)


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