On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Kok, Auke-jan H at 28/09/12 20:09 did gyre and gimble: > > 1) people should fix 'make' to just allow `-j` without an argument > > (seriously, dude ;^) ) > > Going dangerously off-topic, but two points: > > If you're using -j I've always gone under the impression you want the > value to be #cores+1, not #cores. That way you keep your machine working > full tilt. > > But regardless, why not use "make -l" anyway? This way it's tied to > system load which is likely a more prudent method to decide whether or > not new make jobs are issued - e.g. if you happen to be running a make > process that is io-intensive, you likely want to run less of them, but > if you've got a couple jobs one of which is io intensive then some of > your cpu cores might be mostly idle... -l should allow you to max things > out better.
Yeah, -l seems better. But than you still want a load of #cores+1, no? And -l requires an argument too, so it has exactly the same inconvinience as -j. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
