Benjamin Lutz wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2007 11:06, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> I dunno how you want to approach this, but gmake does recommend 2 >> jobs be run in parallel for HTT enabled chips, and 3 or 4 jobs for a >> dual core machines. >> -Garrett > > So far the approach is one job per CPU. I'll do some benchmarks lateron > to determine wether it really helps to run more jobs. For the KDE > ports, my gut feeling is that the improvement would be negligible. I'll > have to evaluate non-C++ ports like gnome-*, where the compilation time > per file is shorter.
I find the benefit especially big with Gecko based ports like Firefox or Thunderbird. > Of course, to make proper use of distcc, at least #cores + 1 jobs are > required. I'll keep that in mind. The recommendation of the Distcc developers is 2 jobs per core, as long as the machines contain sufficient memory. My personal experience says that it's rarely possible to divide a Makefile into more than 6 threads. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"