Thread: How to reduce the time of kernel's re-compiling?
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2011-02-27 , 06:57
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Originally Posted by dchky View Post
Do you have a bunch of spare cores in your CPU? I tend to increase the number of jobs to run in parallel based on the number of CPU's and cores I have. Eg.

make -j 4 bzImage

This should speed things along a tad assuming you have a quad core machine, though you can vary the number up or down depending.
This is a good suggestion, I will try it.