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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:36:40 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        kstewart@urx.com
Cc:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: soft updates performance 
Message-ID:  <81045.982046200@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>  of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:44:25 PST." <3A889F89.8CDD507F@urx.com> 

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> One other point that I would like to understand is why -j4 takes
> longer on all of my systems. That goes against what everyone claims
> should happen.

With how many running processors?  If you're running -j4 on a
uniprocessor system, you're only introducing competition for already
scarce CPU resources, though -j2 can be a speedup since this allows
one target build to run while another is in an I/O wait.  I've only
seen a speedup with -j4 when using at least 2 CPUs.

- Jordan


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