On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jakob �stergaard wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:47:36PM +0100, Nick Kay wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have a quad Xeon 500 box. When running a kernel build
> > with "make dep; time -v make -j4 bzImage modules modules_install"
>
> Try
> make dep && time -v sh -c 'make -j4 bzImage modules && make modules_install'
on a quad Xeon it's much better to change the top level Makefile's MAKE
entry:
MAKE =make -j3
and then do 'make -j4 bzImage'. This gives the best parallelism, about
390%. (the final link is always serialized so it's never gonna be 400%.)
-- mingo
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