make

Tim Prince tprince@computer.org
Wed Nov 7 21:33:00 GMT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <dnkohn@iadfw.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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?


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