From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E90138010 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 670A021C04F; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1F821C02F for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.42.77] (staff-wireless.saddleback.edu [209.129.85.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B173733C4F0; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <504F6A21.4080709@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:43:13 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120901 Thunderbird/15.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "vivo75@gmail.com" , gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? References: <20544.29691.208130.35494@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120831154521.5258c549@googlemail.com> <20120831111244.0c17b8aa@gentoo.org> <20120902002002.GB25302@localhost> <20120904110041.GA19158@waltdnes.org> <50463738.7000209@gentoo.org> <504F6884.9000201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <504F6884.9000201@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d847a72f-397a-4e9f-90bb-3ce27536a289 X-Archives-Hash: cc307ec05d6b422ede3b08b3689a73ac On 09/11/2012 09:36 AM, vivo75@gmail.com wrote: > Dunno where to place this request, but if we go for something like EJOBS > could we also make it phase specific? > So compile, install and test could have a different number of jobs running. > Possibly three different variables that override a predefined EJOBS. Per-phase sounds a little to fine-grained. Instead, I'd suggest to add an ELOADAVG variable that's analogous to make's --load-average option. That should be enough to compensate for any differences between phases. -- Thanks, Zac