From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 11 16: 6:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E83C14F5C for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:06:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01854; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:13:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:13:43 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart To: Kip Macy Cc: Assar Westerlund , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > That is the same specious logic that is used for Linux's "threads" you > have diminishing marginal returns as the number gets larger due to context > switching overhead. Diminishing *marginal* returns I can live with, but I wonder if this strategy is actually hurting me, rather than merely failing to help much. Once I get a scratch box that I can waste on things like this, I'll run some tests and find out. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message