Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:13:43 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> Cc: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911111912290.99311-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9911111558050.16219-100000@luna>
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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
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