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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.1 slower than 2.4, smp/scsi/sw-raid/reiserfs
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From: Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:42:55 +0000
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>  My test is a software build of about 200 source files (written in C)
>>  that I usually build using "nice make -j4".
>
> Tried -j3?

I've tried -j2 and -j3, the results are much the same as -j4.

-- 
Philip Martin