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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

for smp jobs should not be set to 2 but to number of cpus +1

In /etc/makepkg.conf there is a recommendation to set the jobnumber for make on smp systems to 2.
That´s not the best suggestion!

Read these here:
http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t … =make+jobs
http://2cpu.com/How-To/article3.htm

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual … html#SEC55

http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2463&p=9
http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2213&p=5

Also today there are many smp systems having more than 2 cores. Think off PIV 840EE and DualCore Opteron 2x0 and 8x0 models.

Best general suggestion is to set it to the number of cpus +1. It´s quiete faster and still safe.

What do you think?