On 2017-08-08 09:57-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
Hi Alan,
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From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 11:46 AM
So if you use make -j8 (or so) and ctest -j8 for your comprehensive test it
will really
go ~4 times faster because those -j options will utilize your four cores
completely.
But you have found in the past that the -j option gives unreliable results for
both
make and ctest for both the Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platforms. So you
have dropped these -j options with the result that you only use one of your
cores,
but at least you do get slow but reliable results that way.
I explicitly use the build command "make" because of that, but I still see four instances
of make running, as well as six instances of bash. This is with message "make VERBOSE=1
test_noninteractive in the installed examples build tree" as the last visible text.
Not at all sure what this means, the information I get from the task manager
does not reveal much about what these processes are actually doing (like in
which directory etc.)
The cmake application configures a recursive series of Makefiles,
i.e., one make invokes another which invokes another. And likely the
same is true of the shell (in this case bash) that is used to help
execute eacho of those nested Makefile rules. So the real test would
be provided by a cpu meter which would measure the activity of your 4
cpus. And I predict without the -j options that would show an average
usage of 25 per cent for each of them or in other words you are only
using 1/4th the power of your machine with no -j options.
Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
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software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
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and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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