Re: Dual Athlon MP 1900+ on MSI K7D Master-L

[William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:14:30PM -0500, Kelledin wrote:
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 08:31 pm, Dieter N?tzel wrote:
> > Alan, were should I put the "-j2/-j3" make flag for the kernel
> > compilation? /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.txt is way
> > outdated ;-(
...
> In general, I find it best to set the number of jobs to the 
> number of CPUs _plus 1_--i.e. for single CPU, use make -j2, and 
> for dual CPUs, use make -j3.  Going for that "plus 1" makes most 
> builds just a smidgen faster.  For me, on my dual PPro box, the 
> process would be something like:
> 
> make menuconfig
> make -j3 MAKE="make -j3" dep clean bzImage modules

I usually have better luck if I use only one target per 'make':
    make menuconfig
    make -j3 dep
    make clean
    make -j3 bzlilo
    make -j3 modules
    make -j3 modules_install
Especially, 'modules' and 'modules_install' must be done separately.

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