Re: [Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Brian" == Brian Bechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Sure, look at the concept of job slots in the developer documentation Brian> I find that adding -j 3 speeds up builds considerably. Brian> Some people

Re: [Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-24 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 02:52 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Some packages already do this. For example, KDE does. If you want to see what using all your processors looks like, build KDE and qt :) you will feel a bit of lag... -Ben On my new dual-Ghz box I see a little lag, but not much. CPU

[Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Deraleau
I just got a dual proc box (only G4/450s, not one of the 1.25GHz :( and I'm wondering if there's a way to have Fink make use of both processors while compiling. It seems that while Fink is compiling something, I still have about 50% of my CPUs idle, or, one processor. I'm wondering if anyone has

Re: [Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-24 Thread Brian Bechtel
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 08:15 AM, Jason Deraleau wrote: I just got a dual proc box (only G4/450s, not one of the 1.25GHz :( and I'm wondering if there's a way to have Fink make use of both processors while compiling. Sure, look at the concept of job slots in the developer documen

Re: [Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-24 Thread Max Horn
At 11:15 Uhr -0400 24.10.2002, Jason Deraleau wrote: I just got a dual proc box (only G4/450s, not one of the 1.25GHz :( and I'm wondering if there's a way to have Fink make use of both processors while compiling. It seems that while Fink is compiling something, I still have about 50% of my CPUs

Re: [Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 08:40 AM, Brian Bechtel wrote: On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 08:15 AM, Jason Deraleau wrote: I just got a dual proc box (only G4/450s, not one of the 1.25GHz :( and I'm wondering if there's a way to have Fink make use of both processors while comp