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From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:50:07
Message-Id: 50F6A1EE.9050901@hadt.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Load average in make by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average.
5 >
6 > --jobs and --load-average
7 >
8 > Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7
9 >
10 > It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7.
11
12 No, it will not limit the load to 1.7. It won't start new builds if
13 there are other builds running and loadavg is higher than 1.7

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