On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 16:50 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > 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.
Cool, thanks. Must of been thinking of something else that AMD had licenced from Intel for core CPU use. Could have sworn that AMD had a version of Hyperthreading. Thanks for setting me straight.. B. Vance P.S. It's alive and running well. :-) -- [email protected] mailing list
