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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