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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
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> Would a kernel build with "make -j18" count as existing practice?

Absolutely.

Looks like it does a single-byte write of '+' for each process started 
(and I assume it will do a '-' for each process that exits ;)

Oh, well. So much for my hope to avoid coalescing.

		Linus