[ale] BogoMips uselsess?

[servo at bellsouth.net (Clay Lawrence)]

Actually the number that works best for me is n = (ram/32) + 1 = 65 in
my case with 512mb of ram. I average around 1.5 to 2 minutes on make
bzImage.

Clay
Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 
> Clay Lawrence writes:
> > I've found make -j n where n=RAM/8 works fairly well and keeps this from
> > happening. Where RAM=32 n is 4 but for people like me where RAM=512  is
> > 64 :-)
> 
> Hmm.  I recently ran tests on my dual PPro with 128Meg.  According to
> this rule n = 16 should be optimal, but I found 5 or 6 was best.
> 
> I imagine the proper formula will depend on the ratio between
> processor and hard disk speed.  Also, my tests were on compiling the
> kernel which is a little different from compiling normal code, though
> I don't know how much difference that will make.
> 
> --Michael