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 774791384E3 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:52:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4B0421C0BB; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (mail-ob0-f178.google.com [209.85.214.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 139FD21C05B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id eh20so1397956obb.23 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=8WzO7ebVUaY9V/Fpw7oJtlG5SloNk+LEFfaliubnHRk=; b=AgEz0gbootP0YZm55I9QH0QdnhAoqABqwHzFDwMXdqR/Ff5gbLQPUjv6STHkzMIIKW iTa0H4a9km1OTQIHazMJVhqgSHy6lfpaFIAlTxf2mdNVqfk/KKvbX9cBYrTk/YsFQOvc yyiFbhkCk51eaB1cz+Tp6xWyUJH6yVOdehFVWf+4u+hDTV5ZPdu5+VGRKt9WZxSzlnUA nJPFvx2gsjgk7NIZn7s21BQWUBSEqB5l1j35oit/lx4mCqlRo/CObCWFiysZeAISh3/m DA/UZpFvCGqxNhtCSDrQp1UMwbQMpLsrHrmAglpeOVbtt54lWcIhV+FDc5AzXlRKM9yn PnAg== 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 X-Received: by 10.60.30.201 with SMTP id u9mr1070474oeh.28.1358347936261; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.20.243 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com> References: <50F6A1EE.9050901@hadt.biz> <50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:52:16 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a72b5e50-9b06-4adf-a6b2-8aad9d13fb4e X-Archives-Hash: 3622e06da5b6b66ed5fe67cff3a0e762 On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan 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