On Wednesday 25 January 2006 16:31, B Vance wrote:

>
> I should be safe from OOM.  I have 3Gig RAM installed.  With AMD's
> HyperSomethingorother that pretends to be a CPU, would it be any benefit
> to set the MAKEOPTS to -j4?  2 Cores + 2 Virtual CPUs?

virtual cpus?

intel has hyperthreading, if you mean that, not amd.

the rule of thumb is cores+1

but it is totally personal taste, what you set for jX.
1,2,3,4,5 just try it and choose the number where the result is most to your 
liking.
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