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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:52:28
Message-Id: CA+czFiCXWQC02iZvwxMuYNrwcVt4JT1b5Wo+yESwni4Chqpe5w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote:
3 >> Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average.
7 >>>
8 >>> --jobs and --load-average
9 >>>
10 >>> Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7
11 >>>
12 >>> It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7.
13 >>
14 >> No, it will not limit the load to 1.7. It won't start new builds if
15 >> there are other builds running and loadavg is higher than 1.7
16 >>
17 >
18 > Er, that's what I supposed to mean. My question is which load average
19 > it checks? I'm assuming it checks for the 15 minute average?
20
21 No, the 1-minute.
22
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24 :wq