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 91E511384E3 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D33DF21C08A; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com (mail-pa0-f48.google.com [209.85.220.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2625AE0684 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id fa1so831683pad.7 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:48:43 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=ixV8kM9nrE2+6V2FhKZaWZxKg37wyAWdO4U2giAVwG0=; b=PQ6Mm6s/msKaCuk5MU4b1vHpO1YTaV4nBm+pjqnXC7pmXAFLZ/3mp7u2vk+Bf6b3l1 54EN7bXAdBrL7QCyU90JFzlBlqh6VRnQlvrXiEWPaXmdCw82IbHh7uf2NRHtOqKbMyj3 jCFzwX59DwhLarHqS0GWkk5/QWqfDq45TtNmjq8oG10Le8eDwyYdRZ4DpLGniZ+alWQH PBwJ8l9ogTz3xrJo3CWrUSYBVx3yKMK8v8XhEIUMNMGap8eOCJGiz7JXdOjwt1ltf54V /dYgylQyX/dL1slasj5eRpsQyxCW1CZp+x4AQ3IBuSE4BAHl9tT/90omRPf+u244GeZg F03Q== X-Received: by 10.68.132.34 with SMTP id or2mr3333698pbb.133.1358347722904; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:48:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([123.201.39.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id nt5sm12404284pbb.59.2013.01.16.06.48.40 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:48:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:18:38 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindrajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make References: <50F6A1EE.9050901@hadt.biz> In-Reply-To: <50F6A1EE.9050901@hadt.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnGgv69X4OfHiHghWWGJmDgunRj7KdLCJsEJoBMmYinFe5A4LFBf2WuxKbNk6vquQJQZuZZ X-Archives-Salt: bcab9530-b1eb-4f01-8eae-277b69bc7622 X-Archives-Hash: 3ec5646d83272a17f0bf01165b8131fb 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