[CentOS] Slow performance

Mon Apr 30 22:31:48 UTC 2007
Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com>

Scott Lamb wrote:
> $ make clean
> $ time make -j1
> $ make clean
> $ time make -j8
    So, as you guessed, j1 took just under 10 minutes whereas j8 took 
under 2.  Which is what I would expect.  Okay, thanks for the help.  
It's time I go beat up our vendor now.  As far as  understand their 
explanation is that they simply call the thumbnail creation routine 
sequentially, one image at a time, which in turn goes to PHP which then 
goes to Apache.  And as far as the OS is concerned, it received 1 single 
call from Apache to do something, as opposed to multiple calls at the 
same time.

    Would that be a reasonable explanation (of why their process takes 
so long)?  Because they're not spawning multiple calls ... ?

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