Re: Building the kernel with SMP

Rui Sousa (rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu)
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 03:02:38 +0100

Stephen Boulet wrote:
>
> When building the kernel on an SMP system, are there any command options that
> need to be passed to get my 2 processors involved?
>
> I tried make -j bzImage with 2.2.11, and it errored out.
>

This will launch ilimited processes and kill the machine.
Try:

#make -j N1 bzImage

or

#make MAKE="make -j N2" bzImage

where N1 should be around 20 and N2 around 3. Some tweaking required. 

-- 
Rui Sousa


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