From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:00:19 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [PATCH] page aging for 2.2.16 Message-ID: <20000608150019.E3886@redhat.com> References: <20000608031635.A353@acs.ucalgary.ca> <20000608144126.E8549@krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000608144126.E8549@krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>; from ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:41:26PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthias Andree , Neil Schemenauer , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:41:26PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > * Neil Schemenauer (nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca) [000608 11:21]: > > I timed a kernel compile with -j 20 to test the cost of the > > you mean: make -j 2 MAKE="make -j 10"? Recursive make easily breaks its > -j option if -j is given a numeric parameter. On modern versions of Gnu Make, "-j " uses a "jobserver" facility to make sure that the parent and all child make processes share the same pool of up to compilation tasks. It handles recursion properly nowadays. Cheers, Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/