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Alternately you can run -j without an argument and it won't set a limit on the number of jobs it kicks off.
by stusmall 14y ago
Alternately you can run -j without an argument and it won't set a limit on the number of jobs it kicks off.
- nitrogen 14y agoEven if you have unilmited RAM, at some point context switching overhead will slow down the process as you add extra simultaneous jobs. Moreover, with the Linux BFS scheduler, optimum performace is achieved when the number of jobs is equal to the number of CPUs.
- jlgreco 14y agoBe careful with that one. I left a very beefy (32 cores, 64GB ram) CS department server unresponsive for several minutes doing that with the linux kernel.