Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <03e201c16816$d5297e00$bbef85ce@amr.corp.intel.com> From: "Tim Prince" To: , "David" References: <81CFFDBDD157D211B34700805F9A13B3017BD394@cairo> <5.0.2.1.2.20011107204457.00ad9208@mail.airmail.net> Subject: Re: make Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:21:35 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 6:45 PM Subject: make > I am somewhat new to cygwin ( have been using it for a few months) and am > currently assisting our developers. > I am setting up builds using the 1.3.2 version and I'm trying to find out > if make under cygwin can do parallel processing. I saw a note on the > 3.77.1 version of make that parallel processing code had been worked on. > > I've tried make -j 2 for a 2 processor machine but the cpu utilization is > still down at 3-6%. That is typical, if you have McAfee running in command script checking mode. > Has the code for parallel processing been tested for NT ? How does one > verify that it is working ? By working, you mean tasks starting while other tasks are executing?...Shorter over-all elapsed time, with multiple processors? May not happen if you're running McAfee. Have you tried Task Manager or Perfmon? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/