Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:28:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>, Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -jN world; how to determine optimal value of N? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911121027420.6629-100000@penelope.skunk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991111235239.39039A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > Well, presumably at some point your memory working set exceeds your CPU > cache, and that begins to hurt. And then at some point your working > memory pages exceed the available space, and you begin to page. I've been working with systems with 512 MB or more of RAM, so that hasn't been an issue. -- 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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