From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:27:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/7] automatically set PARALLEL_JOBS when BR2_JLEVEL is 0 In-Reply-To: <1339466983-19786-8-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> References: <1339466983-19786-1-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1339466983-19786-8-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> Message-ID: <4FD921C9.4020302@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 06/12/12 04:09, Nathan Lynch wrote: > When BR2_JLEVEL is 0, set PARALLEL_JOBS to the number of CPUs > detected. This allows one to more or less fully utilize the host > system without manually tuning the configuration. In my experience, you need 2 times the number of CPUs to fully utilize the processor because most compilations have long iowait latencies. Otherwise, looks good. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F