From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:18:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F6A1EE.9050901@hadt.biz>
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> 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
>
Er, that's what I supposed to mean. My question is which load average
it checks? I'm assuming it checks for the 15 minute average?
--
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 14:48 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
2013-01-16 14:48 ` Nilesh Govindrajan [this message]
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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