Topic 'The Rig' in forum 'All Things Unix' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/The-Rig-22635111 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:37:28 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:37:28 EDT Re: The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22647497
Sorry to be so cryptic. `make' is used to create a `target' from a user-defined set of rules. `make' is typically used to compile a program. However, you can also think of taking .html and compiling it into .txt (say, using lynx). And you could use `make' for this task.

The `-j' option to `make' instructs it to create multiple parallel `jobs' Suppose you had 30 `c' programs which make up a library, you could compile up to `-j 8' (eight) simultaneously. When one is done, `make' handles adding another to its run queue.

See `man make' for oodles more information. :)
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pablo
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ISP: TekSavvy DSL; backhauled via a 6KM wireless link]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22647497 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:40:23 EDT Re: The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22646525 very low-level geek. make -j8? I only understand the 'make' command.
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A thousand miles can lead so many ways, just to know who's driving what a help it would be....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22646525 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:58:35 EDT Re: The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22642132
Just for fun, I `time'd a `pidgin' build. I ran a `make clean' between each run.

-j8 = 58.03s
-j16 = 57.75s

Didn't seem to make too much difference. May be enough group-waits to not help in my case.
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pablo
openSUSE 11.0;KDE
ISP: TekSavvy DSL; backhauled via a 6KM wireless link]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22642132 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:09:17 EDT Re: The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22639704 See Profile found -j8 to be the sweet spot for his Q6600 quad core CPU running FreeBSD.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22639704 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:14:40 EDT Re: The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22638512 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22638512 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:39:34 EDT Re: The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22638505 :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-The-Rig-22638505 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:36:53 EDT The Rig http://www.dslreports.com/forum/The-Rig-22635111
I put together an I7/950 yesterday. Burning it in with openSUSE. I need to install some more software before I cut over from my ancient P4 desktop. I'm quite geek'd at the moment.

Nothing like:

bash code:
$ make -j8

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pablo
openSUSE 11.0;KDE
ISP: TekSavvy DSL; backhauled via a 6KM wireless link
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