Re: Ten percent test

Gene Heskett
2007-04-07T20:32:07Z

On Saturday 07 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 20:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > (who the hell runs a 'make -j 200' or 50 while(1)'s in the real
>> > world?
>>
>> not many - and i dont think Mike tested any of these - Mike tested
>> pretty low make -j values (Mike, can you confirm?).
>
>Yes. I don't test anything more than make -j5 when looking at
>interactivity, and make -j nr_cpus+1 is my must have yardstick.
>
> -Mike

Somebody made that remark, maybe not you, and maybe they were being funny,
but I didn't at the time, see any smileys.

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