On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:23:44 -0800 "M. Edward Borasky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ayup ... anything over -j2 is probably more trouble than it's worth, | even on a multi-processor or cluster. You want your CPU utilization | *at* 100 percent; you can't get it *over* 100 percent.
You are very very very wrong on that. On my e4k, -j24 seems to be about the optimal setting for packages which can go that high (not all of them have enough source files...). -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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