SMP and Make

[Tim B <mo...@optonline.net>]

what are the best options to use when building SpamAssassin on an SMP 
system?  and during which step do I use those switches?

Re: SMP and Make

[Tim B <mo...@optonline.net>]

Theo Van Dinter wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Tim B wrote:
> 
>>what are the best options to use when building SpamAssassin on an SMP 
>>system?  and during which step do I use those switches?
> 
> 
> You don't really get any benefit out of the "-j" switch in our "make".
> There's only 1 thing which gets compiled, and a handful of file/copy
> commands.
> 
> But "make -j 2" (or whatever number) will do it.
> 

Thanks  I won't sweat it then, was just looking to make the most out of 
a nice shiny new 4way server

Re: SMP and Make

[Teun Vink <te...@moonblade.net>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:25 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Tim B wrote:
> > what are the best options to use when building SpamAssassin on an SMP 
> > system?  and during which step do I use those switches?
> 
> You don't really get any benefit out of the "-j" switch in our "make".
> There's only 1 thing which gets compiled, and a handful of file/copy
> commands.
> 
> But "make -j 2" (or whatever number) will do it.
> 

Of course, it's still useful to make sure your kernel does support SMP,
so your spamd processes (and all other processes for that matter) will
be distributed over all available processors.


Teun

Re: SMP and Make

[Theo Van Dinter <fe...@kluge.net>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Tim B wrote:
> what are the best options to use when building SpamAssassin on an SMP 
> system?  and during which step do I use those switches?

You don't really get any benefit out of the "-j" switch in our "make".
There's only 1 thing which gets compiled, and a handful of file/copy
commands.

But "make -j 2" (or whatever number) will do it.

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