> > I do 'make -j' personally. :) > > Forgive my stupidity, but what does "make -j" do? :) > make with an unlimited number of discrete jobs (ie, usually it 'make's one thing at a time ... this tries to compile all files at once.). Good to drive the load up on just about any machine. If you share the machine with other people, I'd recommend not doing it. A p200 with 128 megs has (for a short time) loads of around 20. A sun Ultra2-sparc (300 mhz, 1 gig of memory) only goes up to 1.2-1.6 ish.. but i've never before in my life seen that go above 1. PjD +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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