Projects Penguin Icons MySQL Tools Speed up 'make' Dell Inspiron 1150 Dell Inspiron 2200 Network Monitoring SPF for Sylpheed / Claws Mail KDE EMail Settings Trium Galaxy Speed Dragon Genius GS-4500 Scanner Compatibility Konica KD-200Z Lifetec 9415 SYN Flood Protection Blocking AdWords OpenOffice HTML Export Elster durch die Firewall		Automatically speed up compiling of source code on Linux When you compile a program on Linux, the process usually goes ./configure make make install The most time consuming process is usually the 'make' stage where the source code is compiled. Most computers today have CPUs with multiple cores, but by default 'make' only starts one thread and only one CPU core gets to do all work. If you have a dual-core CPU and start 'make' with parameter -j2, compilation is almost twice as fast. To automatically use all available cores of your CPU, add this into your .bashrc: NC=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l` alias make="make -j$NC" This will automatically detect the number of CPUs/cores you have and will start enough threads to keep them all busy next time you type 'make' and you will have to wait much less.