On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:25 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Tim B wrote: > > what are the best options to use when building SpamAssassin on an SMP > > system? and during which step do I use those switches? > > You don't really get any benefit out of the "-j" switch in our "make". > There's only 1 thing which gets compiled, and a handful of file/copy > commands. > > But "make -j 2" (or whatever number) will do it. >
Of course, it's still useful to make sure your kernel does support SMP, so your spamd processes (and all other processes for that matter) will be distributed over all available processors. Teun
