On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Christian Gagneraud wrote:

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.

if that's the case, anyone object to my submitting a patch to
update local.conf.sample appropriately?

rday

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