Re: High load

[Aniruddh Singh <aps@jobsahead.com>]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 21:48 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:17:09 +0530 Aniruddh Singh wrote:
> 
> >  
> > > > > for measuring IO performance, I'd recommend tiobench over hdparm any day
> > > > > ( http://tiobench.sf.net )
> > > > 
> > > > i will do it, can you please tell me why load goes high when i compile
> > > > kernel (10 and above)
> > > 
> > > thats really odd, unless you do a "make -j", in which case of course
> > > it's expected ;)
> > yes i always use make -j option ??
> 
> With or without a following integer?
make -j8, machine has 4 processor 
> 
> See 'make help':
>   -j [N], --jobs[=N]          Allow N jobs at once; infinite jobs with no arg.
> 
> so use make -j N to limit the number of makes/compiles etc.
> or use 'make -j' to go ballistic.
> 
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Aniruddh Singh
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