From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 25 15:51:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17936 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA17925 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18963; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:51:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708252251.QAA18963@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Simon Shapiro cc: nnd@itfs.nsk.su, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make and SMP - what can be done ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:53:44 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:51:01 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > > As a result my last successfull 'make -j12 buildworld' > > produced 170.9% processor's usage and takes 2:54:00 as > > opposed to 104.1% and 4:34:23 for 'make buildworld' > > (without any patches). > > I can't help it :-)) It takes only between 1:26 and 2:36 to do make world > here. On a P6-200 UP. first, why the wide range? extrapolating these numbers the 2:36 would go down to 1:39, and the 1:26 would go down to 0:55! then when we turn a 4 CPU box loose on it... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD