Re: Parallel build not working since -test6?

[Derek Foreman]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Thursday 27 November 2003 00:27, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> > Lately I've noticed my kernel compilations taking longer than usual.
> > Tonight I finally realized the cause... Parallel building (i.e. make -jN)
> > is no longer working for me. I traced it back and the last kernel it worked
> > in was -test5. It ceased working in -test6.
> It works for me, and for sure it works for most others. Otherwise I would
> have seen lot of complaints like yours.
> I recall one similar post, and the person in question used a homegrown
> script that caused the problems.

Well, this explains why 2.6.x builds so much slower here than it did a few
kernels ago.

make -j3 improves things.  but currently, make -j2 doesn't use both my
cpus.

no scripts, just make -j2 bzImage
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