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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:48:54
Message-Id: 50F6BDC6.5020104@nileshgr.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make by Michael Hampicke
1 On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote:
2 > Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average.
6 >>
7 >> --jobs and --load-average
8 >>
9 >> Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7
10 >>
11 >> It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7.
12 >
13 > No, it will not limit the load to 1.7. It won't start new builds if
14 > there are other builds running and loadavg is higher than 1.7
15 >
16
17 Er, that's what I supposed to mean. My question is which load average
18 it checks? I'm assuming it checks for the 15 minute average?
19
20 --
21 Nilesh Govindarajan
22 http://nileshgr.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@×××××.fr>