Re: Kernel 2.4.5-pre3

[Roman Z. <zi...@li...>]

Ken Tyler wrote:

> > 'make -j 10' or 'make -j 3' shouldn't make a difference for the memory.
> 
> Not disputing what you say but I would have thought that the running makes
> and gccs are still being brought into 'execution' memory, from disk
> buffers producing more mem activity, and also the more tasks mean more
> context switches and more opportunity for errors.

Depends on which errors you want to trigger. The more jobs are running
the more it's likely that they just waiting for i/o, so you only have
small number of jobs doing some real work (possibly even < 1).

bye, Roman