2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
20:21
Michael Green wrote:
I cannot believe compiling the kernel requires ~700 processes running in parallel.
Compiling the kernel _requires_ just a single process, but if you build the kernel to stress a machine, one way is to build it with 'make -j' I've just compiled 2.4.32 with 'make -j bzImage' on a dual PIII 500MHz machine with 1.5Gb RAM - the number of processes shown in 'top' crept slowly towards 700, the highest number I saw was 767. /Per Jessen, Zürich