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Subject: Suggested threads should be double the number of cores.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:37:32 -0000
From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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Documentation suggests that the number of threads should actually be
*double* the number of cores.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

---
the yocto docs i've seen do suggest that the suggested number is
double the number of cores, unless that's wrong.



rday

diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
index 5679c03..505ec67 100644
--- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
+++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #
 #PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
 #
-# For a quad-core machine, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
+# For a quad-core machine, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "8", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 8" would
 # be appropriate for example.

 #