Breakage ahead
Breakage ahead
Posted Jan 21, 2020 23:48 UTC (Tue) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: Breakage ahead by mirabilos
Parent article: GNU make 4.3 released
You should examine GNU make's -l (lowercase L) option. This works in conjunction with -j by checking the load on the system and ensuring that it doesn't get too high. So, make will start a maximum of -j parallel commands, unless the load is higher than specified with -l.
This is all described in the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parall...
Posted Jan 22, 2020 2:00 UTC (Wed)
by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
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Breakage ahead
Maybe so, but the process of building Debian packages has a well-defined way for the invoker to specify a maximum number of CPUs to use, so this must be supportable.