Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware questions

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> > Right now, I've got two modules loaded, and a couple processes
>> running:
>> > Is that everything???
>>
>> Yeap that's it.
>
> Cool.
>
>> But I'm sure we can find something else to start if you want more. ;-)
>
> Nah, I already have BIND and SSHD running on it!
> I wouldn't want to overload my little dual quad core 3.0Ghz Xeon
> (eight cores), 32GB mem, 1TB SCSI RAID, VMware 3i server ...   ;-)
>
> BTW, my little DL 1.3 guest OS seems to run pretty fast on that box!
> (the only guest OS I currently have running)
>
> I'm thinking about loading OpenSuSE on that box and copying over my DL
> build environment to see how fast I can run a complete compile.
>
> How stable are the "Parallel [Compile] Jobs" options now?  I quit
> setting those to anything greater than one a LONG time ago because of
> random aborts.  Any clue what value I should give them for max speed?

I use a "Parallel Compile Jobs" of 2 or 3, depending how I feel on that day.
I'm running that on a dual core machine.
There are still some issues sometimes, but simply continuing the compile
often fixes it.
It may be better now, since I did a few changes last week. Unfortunately I
didn't have any time to do a couple of test compiles with various
settings.

I don't use the "Parallel Jobs" one, since that's the one which causes
most issues. Maybe somebody, someday, has enough time to get it figured
out.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org