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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:52:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiCXWQC02iZvwxMuYNrwcVt4JT1b5Wo+yESwni4Chqpe5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com>

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> 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?

No, the 1-minute.

-- 
:wq


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-16 14:52 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
2013-01-16 14:52     ` Michael Mol [this message]
2013-01-16 15:07     ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Richard
2013-01-16 15:28       ` Nilesh Govindrajan

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