On 11.03.2015, stan wrote: > I don't see why this is necessary. The system is showing 470% > idle. So the kernel cpu scheduler shouldn't need to limit the job to a > single core maximum usage. I just tried a simple "make" on an 8-core machine. There was exactly one compile process, and it's 100% load was distributed over 3 cores. So nothing wrong with that one. If you run 100% on one core or 100% distributed over multiple cores is, in terms of efficacy, the same. > Even if it leaves some margin for error, it > should still be using more than a single core equivalent. The kernel > programmers are smart folks. Not to mention that they do large > compilations on multi-core machines often. I doubt that they hard > coded this kind of behavior into the kernel. It's the limiting to one process which causes what you observe. 1 process can not get more resources that 100%. The CPU scheduler handles how they are distributed. > So there must be a setting that is limiting the kernel scheduler in some way. > Maybe it's the scheduler that is being used. I'm using 'on demand' rather than > 'performance'. Ondemand and performance affect the cpufreq, not the load balancing or the involvement of different cores. > 'Performance' sounds like it keeps everything at full > rev all the time. No. It keeps every core running at full speed all the way, which has nothing to do with how the load is balanced between different cores. > I'll keep plugging away, reading and experimenting, until I get it or > give up. Use "make -j" when compiling and be happy :-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
