Re: Dual Athlon MP 1900+ on MSI K7D Master-L
William Park (opengeometry@yahoo.ca)
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:00:06 -0400
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 outdated ;-(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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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
8-CPU Cluster, Hosting, NAS, Linux, LaTeX, python, vim, mutt, tin
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