Account for Debian group mail: >> Andrew Sackville-West: >> >> To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to >> run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just set >> CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of cores you have. > > > I looks like both CPUs are doing their thing on the kernel compile. Here > is a quick look at the top info: > > top - 11:56:30 up 4 days, 3:17, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 1.19, 0.85 > Tasks: 80 total, 2 running, 78 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu0 : 46.9%us, 3.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 46.6%id, 2.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Cpu1 : 41.7%us, 5.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 52.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
No, it looks like both cores are idle about 50% of the time. This happens because the kernel tries to distribute load evenly to all available CPUs. J. -- Tony Blair is a hypnotised self-seeking scarecrow just like all the rest. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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