Kevin,
> It would be hard to schedule the requisite time on our biggest web
> machines, but I assume an 8 core 64GB machine would give meaningful
> results. Any sense what numbers of parallel jobs I should use for
> tests? I would be tempted to try 1 (with the -1 switch), 8, 12, and
> 16 -- maybe keep going if 16 beats 12.
Personally, I wouldn't go over the number of cores. But if you do find
some gain that way, I'd be very interested to know it.
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