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From: Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis AT mailc DOT net>
Subject: Re: parallel make
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:19:13 -0400
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:03:55PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Is this a real responce?  Or is this some more dry humour?
> 
> 
> It's a real response.

So, you are saying that there are known scalability issuse with cygwin? 
  Like with the number of processes?

Does cygwin only allow 64 processes at once?

-Rolf



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