[poky] [RFC PATCH 1/1] local.conf.sample: update suggestions for BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL_MAKE
Joshua Lock
josh at linux.intel.com
Fri Jun 17 20:16:04 PDT 2011
It's been suggested that BB_NUMBER_THREADS should be 2 * the number of cores
and PARALLEL_MAKE should be equal to the number of cores available on the
build machine.
Update local.conf.sample to suggest this.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com>
---
meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample
index ea32b81..43d06e6 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/local.conf.sample
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ CONF_VERSION = "1"
#SSTATE_DIR ?= "${TOPDIR}/sstate-cache"
# Uncomment and set to allow bitbake to execute multiple tasks at once.
-# For a quadcore, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
+# Recommended values are twice the number of processor cores for
+# BB_NUMBER_THREADS and the number of processor cores for PARALLEL_MAKE
+# For a quadcore, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "8", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
# be appropriate.
# BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
# Also, make can be passed flags so it run parallel threads e.g.:
--
1.7.5.4
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