[ale] Performance

[Christopher Fowler]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:14, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>   
> 
> Some years back, I had read that the make -j parameter should be
> adjusted so as to use up as much RAM as you've got without going into
> paging, but these days everywhere I look/ask, people are saying the
> parameter should be the number of CPUs plus one.


I used 'make -j 2' and I did see a difference.  In one directory I was
able to compile all the code in 46s vs 57s.  I also noticed that my
system was being utilized much more during that compile.  The xterm
window refreshes were not as smooth.


> - Jeff
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