* Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
@ 2013-01-16 14:48 99% ` Nilesh Govindrajan
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From: Nilesh Govindrajan @ 2013-01-16 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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?
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Nilesh Govindarajan
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