On 14/03/07 at 20:54 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Lucas Nussbaum: > > > Such a machine looks a bit strange (6 CPUs vs 256 MB RAM). I think that > > usually, modern SMPs have "enough" memory to handle what all their CPUs > > can do. > > I'm not sure. 512 MB per execution unit is not too uncommen and may > cause problems for C++ packages (or MLton).
Bastian's example is not 256 MB per CPU, it's 256 MB total. But on such a system, you could still say: "Well, I want to rebuild several packages, I know some of them might cause problems with only 512 MB per WU, so I'll build with parallel=2, not parallel=6, just to be on the safe side." I've never said that I would like the default value for 'parallel' to be the number of CPUs. This doesn't seem to be reasonable. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
