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. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [email protected] mailing list
