On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:29:55 Thomas Rösner wrote:
> What are your MAKEOPTS set to?

-j5, to give one active and one waiting on each CPU, with one just in case.

> Are you sure firefox can be built in parallel?

I can't say I am. It does appear to launch a batch of compilations together, 
but then, later, top only shows one compiler instance at a time.

> Depending on how long lived the g++ processes are, top showing 
> low CPU percentage for them is quite normal.

I don't understand the connection with long life.

> If nothing helps, try compiling inside a screen session.

Hmm. I haven't used screen yet, not having had a need so far as I know.

Thanks for the ideas.

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Peter Humphrey
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