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Re: Re[2]: kernel compilation time



> 
> I don't understand the meaning of that "+1" (unless this is a way to concur
> with another CPU-intensive process running simultaneously on the same box -
> but then why not just SIGSTOP or renice it for awhile??).

Oh, not. Just imagine your computer does nothing except for
kernel compilation (that's the situation, right ? ).
Then you really don't want to wait for I/O on this
machine. N+1 ensures that in time one gcc would stuck waiting
for I/O, other will effectively run. 
 
> And, definitely,
> parallelizing kernel make on a machine with only 16MB of RAM installed is a
> bad idea anyway, no matter how many CPUs it has.

Oh, that's true. Also, if it doesn't run X at the moment
it probably would successfully run two gcc's at the time.

Meir



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