On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 19:35 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello and thanks for your reply. The next question will be slightly OT > but what would current GNU/Linux (like Kubuntu Trusty which I use for > instance) do on a desktop i5 system with 4 cores? Would it use all the > cores?
I don't really understand the question. Maybe if you went up a level and told us why you're asking this or what your goal is. The kernel will use all available cores for something (unless you specifically configured it to ignore some of them). There are a lot of processes that are running on a standard UNIX system, and all of them (that aren't asleep waiting for something else to happen) need to be run. As long as there are at least 4 things that need to be run, then the kernel will use all 4 cores to run things. Those things may or may not be the commands that make is invoking, depending on how busy your system is with other tasks at any given moment. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
