[ale] BogoMips uselsess?

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Mon May 10 09:58:02 EDT 1999


On Sun, 9 May 1999, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> I speak from experience.  I tried to compile something (the GIMP?)
> with -j and only 32 Meg of RAM but I have just added a whole bunch of
> swap so I had something like 160 MB of Swap.  When the number of
> processes hit 65 I finally maned to move the mouse into a another
> window and kill the parent process.

If you *really* want a fun time, increase the process limit in the kernel
and the max. number of open file descriptors and then do a make -j ;-).

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
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