Subject: Re: MP scheduling
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/11/2004 07:24:23
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:14:33 -0500
Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Are you sure build actually ran jobs concurrently ( like make -j2 ) ?
> You can't distribute a single thread over two CPUs and expect more
> than ~100% combined load :)

I don't know about the -j2 flag, but I saw threads from nbmake on both
CPUs. In general, other than the actual compiling there was good load
sharing. The actual compiling would stay on one CPU and consume all of
it.

tim