Deskin Miller wrote: > I'm new to the list, having recently built an LFS system on an old > Pentium Pro machine, and I'm now in the middle of building another on > an SMP Pentium II box. I noticed, while timing the SBU compilation of > binutils in Section 5.3, if I put 'make && make install', that the > wall-clock time was about 12m56s; while user time was about 7m. If > instead I compiled with 'make -j2 && make -j2 install', wall-clock > time went down to about 8m, with negligible change to user time
My understanding is that you should use make -j X, where X is the number of cores on your system. If X is less than the number of cores, then you're underutilizing your system; if higher, you're overutilizing it and performance will plummet. As far as mentioning it in the book... I'm not enthusiastic, since it's basic knowledge of how your computer works... OTOH we already say some pretty basic things, and the proliferation of multicore CPUs might warrant a mention of make -j. -- Miguel Bazdresch http://thewizardstower.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
