[ILUG] SMP compilation

[Ronny B.]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:09:23PM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> I have a dual-CPU Celeron machine, and it would be very nice to have a 
> setting which would automatically take advantage of this by passing
> something like -j4 to make for every single invocation.
You can use any of the solutions mentioned by others on the list -
personally, I don't even have more than one CPU, but use "MAKE = make -j4"
in my /usr/src/linux/Makefile. This speeds up first-time compiles summat.

Somebody on some mailing list ages ago claimed that a single CPU computer
can use -j4, and an SMP machine could go further. This makes sense, when
you consider that most of the compilation process is just disk access.

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O- Nny