make -j level
Posted Dec 10, 2010 20:59 UTC (Fri) by
giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to:
Interactive versus batch processes by nix
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Group scheduling and alternatives
And if you have an exceptionally slow filesystem, also multiply by the expansion factor (single thread total time / CPU time). One one system I use, with a single CPU, I found -j6 gave minimum elapsed time.
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