Re: reducing compiler instances during buildkernel

2011-11-07 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 06:46:24PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Nov-05 22:30:21 +, Alexander Best wrote: > >wouldn't it be possible to somehow spawn N gcc or clang instances > >(make -jN buildkernel) and then pipe the src to one of those N instances? > >just like with something like mu

Re: reducing compiler instances during buildkernel

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Nov-05 22:30:21 +, Alexander Best wrote: >wouldn't it be possible to somehow spawn N gcc or clang instances >(make -jN buildkernel) and then pipe the src to one of those N instances? >just like with something like multics N processes were started and then people >used the job control l

reducing compiler instances during buildkernel

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, when doing buildkernel one notices that the gcc or clang instances are spawned and closed so fast that top isn't fast enough to show them and the "last pid" field increases quite fast. obviously this produces quite a lot of syscall overhead. wouldn't it be possible to somehow spawn N gc