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

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