From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:49:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F6A1EE.9050901@hadt.biz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHgBc-vETNM3MWO6TTGft+YPM2EbrSO5KFmf3-b4g-_KvX8rKg@mail.gmail.com>
Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
> Hi,
>
> Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average.
>
> --jobs and --load-average
>
> Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7
>
> It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7.
No, it will not limit the load to 1.7. It won't start new builds if
there are other builds running and loadavg is higher than 1.7
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-16 11:09 [gentoo-user] Load average in make Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-01-16 12:49 ` Michael Hampicke [this message]
2013-01-16 14:48 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-01-16 14:52 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-16 15:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Richard
2013-01-16 15:28 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
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