10 Mar
2015
10 Mar
'15
12:51 p.m.
On 10.03.2015, ergodic wrote:
Wouldn't be better to use -j with no argument?
It's a matter of taste. I compile my kernels with a nice value of 19 (lowest priority), because mostly I have to do other work while compiling a new kernel.
I've never tried -j. How many processes does it open on you machine? Are you able to do something else in parallel, or is the load too high?