[From Sam] > BTW, when setting up parallel make, I usually use # cpus + 1, so a compile is > running while disk access is going for another. [From Ryan] My experience is that this works well on Linux, but is actually slower on PowerPC Mac OS X...not sure if that's an architecture issue or a scheduler issue, though, and haven't tried it on Intel Mac OS X.

--- a/build-scripts/fatbuild.sh	Fri Apr 28 05:43:58 2006 +0000
+++ b/build-scripts/fatbuild.sh	Fri Apr 28 05:46:07 2006 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 
 # Number of CPUs (for make -j)
 NCPU=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
-NJOB=`expr $NCPU + 1`
+NJOB=$NCPU
+#NJOB=`expr $NCPU + 1`
 
 # Generic, cross-platform CFLAGS you always want go here.
 CFLAGS="-O3 -g -pipe"