improving the -l option (addendum)

2016-10-09 Thread Sven C. Dack
A minor correction. I've missed a test for an error case. Updated patch can be found in the attachments. Sven --- make-4.2.1/configure.ac 2016-06-06 13:27:31.0 +0100 +++ make-4.2.1.1/configure.ac 2016-10-09 18:33:34.574257275 +0100 @@ -176,10 +176,30 @@ AS_IF([test "$have_guile"

improving the -l option

2016-10-09 Thread Sven C. Dack
Hello, I have created a patch to improve make's behaviour with regards to parallel execution and system load. On Linux do the load averages refresh only every 5 seconds. Further do load averages only ever represent past but not present load. As a consequence does this lead to idle times duri