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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:09:18
Message-Id: CAHgBc-vETNM3MWO6TTGft+YPM2EbrSO5KFmf3-b4g-_KvX8rKg@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
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3 Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average.
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5 --jobs and --load-average
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7 Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7
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9 It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7.
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11 But which load average does that check? One minute, five minutes or fifteen
12 minutes?
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14 --
15 Nilesh Govindrajan
16 http://nileshgr.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>