On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Jochen Kunz wrote:
- One would assume that running 4 VMs would take 4x the compilation time compared to 1 VM. Any ideas why the time is only 1600 instead of 2000?Interleaving of IO between the VMs? I.e. if only a single VM is running and needs IO, it has to wait and the CPU goes idle as long as the disk needs to do the IO. If there are multiple VMs running this CPU idle time is used by the other VMs to do compute work.
... similar to what happens between "make -j1" and "make -j4". - Hubert -- NetBSD - Free AND Open! (And of course secure, portable, yadda yadda)