[yocto] what's the proper value for BB_NUMBER_THREADS?

Christian Gagneraud chgans at gna.org
Sun Oct 30 09:03:14 PDT 2011


On 30/10/11 15:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    all the docs recommend twice the number of cores (AFAICT), yet the
> template local.conf file suggests that, for a quad core, the value of
> 4 would be appropriate.  shouldn't that say 8?  same with
> PARALLEL_MAKE?

Hi Robert,

The Poky ref manual says (rule of thumb) x2 for BB_NUMBER_THREADS, and 
x1.5 for PARALLEL_MAKE.

Chris


>
> rday
>


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Chris



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