you need to edit Makefiles and change:

MAKE= make
to
MAKE = make -j3

for a dual system.  This tells make to run 3 processes at a time, and
that's optimal for a dual system.

-Justin

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Chien-Yu Chen wrote:

> well, I got this SMP running, so I decided to test how well it runs...
> so I download the X11 source, then start making it.
> while I am making it, I did a vmstat 1 on the other window..
> and I am seeing around 50 on the idle time..
> 
> my experience from AIX is that, vmstat take the average of the 2 CPUs. so
> one can really hammer on one CPU, but not the other. and this looks like
> the problem here..brings in another question, what application are
> multi-threaded out there?
> 
> Momma always said: life is like
>       `.           a box of 95;
>     .__ o __.      you never know
>     |__/|__|      if you're gonna
>     /\ < > /\      crash ...                                  
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