Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-02-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:13:17 -0800, LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> It works, until somebody does this >> >> make -j 4 modules modules_install >--- > But that doesn't work now. Agreed, but letting modules_install parallel run increases the risk of somebody do

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-02-01 Thread LA Walsh
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:02:03 -0800, > LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This seems to serialize the delete, run the mod-installs in parallel, then run the > >depmod when they are done. > > It works, until somebody does this > > make -j 4 modules modules_install ---

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread LA Walsh
Keith Owens wrote: > > The only bit that could run in parallel is this one. > > .PHONY: $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) > $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) : > $(MAKE) -C $(patsubst _modinst_%, %, $@) modules_install > > The erase must be done first (serial), then make modules_

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:02:03 -0800, LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This seems to serialize the delete, run the mod-installs in parallel, then run the >depmod when they are done. It works, until somebody does this make -j 4 modules modules_install There is not, and never has been, any

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:44:28 -0800, LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, just about anyone I know uses make -j X [-l Y] bzImage modules, but I noticed that >make modules_install isn't parallel safe in 2.4 -- since it takes much longer than the >old, it would make sense to want to run it in pa

Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread LA Walsh
I remember reading some time back that on a pentium the difference between a pentium in HLT vs. running was about 2-3 watts vs. 15-20 watts. Does anyone know the difference for today's CPU's? P-III/P-IV or other archs? How about the difference when calling the BIOS power-save feature? With the