make -j 4 is really make -j 8 for buildworld?
Marc Olzheim
marcolz at stack.nl
Wed Jan 14 10:46:33 PST 2004
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:26:12AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The N in -jN is a relative measure of parallelism which has nothing
> to do with how many processes are run. That depends on parallism in
> the Makefiles and how subdirs are entered.
Hmm.. From the manual page:
-j max_jobs
Specify the maximum number of jobs that make may have running at
any one time. Turns compatibility mode off, unless the B flag is
also specified.
'maximum number of jobs' seems to be quite clear to me... Or is the -j
propagated into subdirs ?
Zlo
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