> > I/O is usually your limiting factor on kernel builds, not CPU time. You > want to keep those CPUs "full" of stuff to do, so give them things to > process while the i/o is completing from other tasks. Yes, this makes sense as compilation is also quite I/O bound due to reading files to compile from disk. > > But as always, try it out on your system to see what works best for you, > maybe your system is CPU bound on kernel builds as you are running out > of a tmpfs (hint, even then I've found that you want to have more jobs > than the number of processors...) I will. But thanks for the tip! :) -mandeep > > thanks, > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
