Re: [SLE] maximum nproc value

Michael Green wrote:

I cannot believe compiling the kernel requires ~700 processes running
in parallel.

Compiling the kernel _requires_ just a single process, but if you build
the kernel to stress a machine, one way is to build it with 'make -j'

I've just compiled 2.4.32 with 'make -j bzImage' on a dual PIII 500MHz
machine with 1.5Gb RAM - the number of processes shown in 'top' crept
slowly towards 700, the highest number I saw was 767.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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