From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966342AbXDGUcH (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:32:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966343AbXDGUcH (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:32:07 -0400 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40]:58588 "EHLO vms040pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966342AbXDGUcF (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:32:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:31:44 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Ten percent test In-reply-to: <1175973261.6288.2.camel@Homer.simpson.net> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Galbraith , Ingo Molnar , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , ck list Message-id: <200704071631.44371.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200703290237.38777.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070407180818.GB23861@elte.hu> <1175973261.6288.2.camel@Homer.simpson.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 07 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: >On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 20:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Gene Heskett wrote: >> > (who the hell runs a 'make -j 200' or 50 while(1)'s in the real >> > world? >> >> not many - and i dont think Mike tested any of these - Mike tested >> pretty low make -j values (Mike, can you confirm?). > >Yes. I don't test anything more than make -j5 when looking at >interactivity, and make -j nr_cpus+1 is my must have yardstick. > > -Mike Somebody made that remark, maybe not you, and maybe they were being funny, but I didn't at the time, see any smileys. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Please remain calm, it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time.