Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-03-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
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 uncom

Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-03-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* 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). -- To