Re: SMP kernel completes kernel compile

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Dimitris Michailidis wrote:

> First, we need to agree on what exactly we will be compiling.  I have
> numbers from 4P x86 -j4 but for a different kernel configuration.  I must
> say though that the CPU utilizations above are extremely low for parallel
> make.  For 4P I get utilizations above 350%.  On the other hand, the number
> of page faults is comparable (given the x86 box has more memory) so I'm
> curious what the CPUs on the o2k are doing.

Btw, on my 4 CPU Origin 200 running IRIX I made some experiments how to
optimize the compilation of Linux kernels.  I obtained the fastest compiles
with the command ``make "MAKE=make -j3" -j3''.

  Ralf