From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David To: "Tim Prince" , Subject: Re: make Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 05:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <5.0.2.1.2.20011108073825.032ac898@mail.airmail.net> References: <81CFFDBDD157D211B34700805F9A13B3017BD394@cairo> <5.0.2.1.2.20011107204457.00ad9208@mail.airmail.net> <03e201c16816$d5297e00$bbef85ce@amr.corp.intel.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11.t/msg00443.html We disable Mcafee for the builds as it adds to much overhead. I am looking in Task Manager to start with to see the utilization. I see no difference from using make -j x (where x is the number of processors).and make without the -j switch. By using make -j you can take advantage of parallel executions. Please let me know if I'm invoking it incorrectly. At 09:21 PM 11/7/2001 -0800, Tim Prince wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David" >To: >Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 6:45 PM >Subject: make > > > > I am somewhat new to cygwin ( have been using it for a few months) and am > > currently assisting our developers. > > I am setting up builds using the 1.3.2 version and I'm trying to find out > > if make under cygwin can do parallel processing. I saw a note on the > > 3.77.1 version of make that parallel processing code had been worked on. > > > > I've tried make -j 2 for a 2 processor machine but the cpu utilization is > > still down at 3-6%. >That is typical, if you have McAfee running in command script checking mode. > > Has the code for parallel processing been tested for NT ? How does one > > verify that it is working ? >By working, you mean tasks starting while other tasks are >executing?...Shorter over-all elapsed time, with multiple processors? May >not happen if you're running McAfee. Have you tried Task Manager or >Perfmon? > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/