Re: Safety of -j N when building kernels?

Fernando [Quatro]
2002-05-22T17:33:12Z

I think it's safe... I ran a `make -j` once (dual pIII 933MHz, 1Gb RAM).
The load average went to 200+! In the end, the kernel was fine and booted
all right... I don't do that anymore because it takes longer building with a sane number
in 'make -j N'...

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Fernando Korndorfer - fernando@quatro.com.br
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