make -j
Update: Russ reccomends 2N threads.
#!/bin/sh
## {$HOME}/bin/makej
renice 1 $$ > /dev/null
N_CPUS=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`
N_THRDS=`expr ${N_CPUS:-1} "*" 2`
exec /usr/bin/make -j "$N_THRDS" "$@"Update: Russ reccomends 2N threads.
#!/bin/sh
## {$HOME}/bin/makej
renice 1 $$ > /dev/null
N_CPUS=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l`
N_THRDS=`expr ${N_CPUS:-1} "*" 2`
exec /usr/bin/make -j "$N_THRDS" "$@"