Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:21:56 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: parallel make
Message-ID: <20030828002156.GA27895@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <Pine DOT SOL DOT 4 DOT 50 DOT 0308271643000 DOT 17159-100000 AT frame> <bijhiq$r5r$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <bijhiq$r5r$1@sea.gmane.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:15:19PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>make -j does work in cygwin, to an extent.  If you try to use too many 
>processes, cygwin seems to flip out.  -j20 does seem to work fine though 
>(it only starts acting strang around -j100).

More likely it "flips out" around -j62 or so.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/