Re: [Gimp-developer] Using Parallel Make

2007-08-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 16:46 -0700, Don Rozenberg wrote: > I recently acquired a new PC with a dual core chip running Kubuntu > Feisty Fawn. So when I last tried to build Gimp, version 2.3.18, I used > "make -j" and the build terminated with an error in just a few seconds. Is there a part

Re: [Gimp-developer] Using Parallel Make

2007-08-04 Thread Chris Moller
"make -j" without a numeric argument will overwhelm most machines fairly quickly in complex makes.  Since you're running a dual-core machine, try "make -j3" or "make -j4".  This will limit the number of concurrent processes to something reasonable and provide decent load balancing between proce