[OE-core] [PATCH] local.conf.sample: Have comments ready to go for quad-core (4 -> 8).

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Apr 18 16:23:28 UTC 2013


Have default, commented values for parallelism reflect quad-core
hosts.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>

---

  i'll admit it, i'm just lazy as i do all my work on a quad-core
system and i'm constantly changing 4 to 8. and the proper values for a
quad-core system *should* be 4, not 8, anyway, isn't that right?

diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
index 85205c5..85164a0 100644
--- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
+++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
 # These two options control how much parallelism BitBake should use. The first
 # option determines how many tasks bitbake should run in parallel:
 #
-#BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
+#BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "8"
 #
 # The second option controls how many processes make should run in parallel when
 # running compile tasks:
 #
-#PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
+#PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 8"
 #
-# For a quad-core machine, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
+# For a quad-core machine, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "8", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 8" would
 # be appropriate for example.

 #

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