Re: make -j 4 is really make -j 8 for buildworld?

From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz_at_stack.nl>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:46:29 +0100
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:26:12AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The N in -jN is a relative measure of parallelism which has nothing
> to do with how many processes are run.  That depends on parallism in
> the Makefiles and how subdirs are entered.

Hmm.. From the manual page:

     -j max_jobs
             Specify the maximum number of jobs that make may have running at
             any one time.  Turns compatibility mode off, unless the B flag is
             also specified.

'maximum number of jobs' seems to be quite clear to me... Or is the -j
propagated into subdirs ?

Zlo
Received on Wed Jan 14 2004 - 09:46:33 UTC

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