On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 13:25, Thomas Witkowski < thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Is there a way to run ./configure with multiple cores? On my systems it > takes up to three hours to run this script. So around 80% of the time is > spend in compiling third party packages. Is it possible to run at least this > compilation with multiple cores, so to provide something like "-j8" to them? Not currently. The most common reason for slow configure is a slow network-mounted disk. You can configure on a scratch disk (set symlinks from where you want to put it). With petsc-dev, you can run multiple configures concurrently (for different PETSC_ARCH). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20110523/15db3d52/attachment.htm>
