It's the number of cores. Note that the Java API for it will count hyperthread cores, not actual cores.
We added something in 1.3 to allow you to control this manually. It'll be released soon-ish. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Michael Grafton <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. > > Is there a heuristic it uses to determine how many to run? Number of cores > maybe? I thought I saw fewer running concurrently on OSX. If so, can you > point me at the relevant source code? It might help me figure out how to > game the system. > > > Mike > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not at the moment. We should add something. >> >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michael Grafton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I am running assembleDebug on a build machine (CircleCI, actually) and >>> it is using up way too much RAM, which ends up causing my build to di. >>> >>> This appears to be because preDexDebug launches many processes. On my >>> build machine, which is running Ubuntu this number is about 35, and here's >>> an example line: >>> >>> ubuntu 17521 10450 12 22:28 pts/4 00:00:05 >>> /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/bin/java -Xmx1024M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 >>> -Duser.country=US -Duser.language=en -Duser.variant -cp >>> /usr/local/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/21.1.2/lib/dx.jar >>> com.android.dx.command.Main --dex --multi-dex --output >>> /home/ubuntu/android/android/my_company/build/intermediates/pre-dexed/dev/debug/library-1.0.17-a69076f503290a370c22f778775cce2b2b8033b8.jar >>> /home/ubuntu/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.mcxiaoke.volley/library/1.0.17/f417d7f776d1ee5858fc04d9362aa45e9bedd26b/library-1.0.17.jar >>> >>> Each one of these ends up taking 100-200MB of memory and thus, >>> cumulatively, I easily hit the 4GB limit that CircleCI imposes. However >>> when I run the build on my Mac only about 10 processes seem to spring up. >>> >>> Is there any way to control this parallelism so I can keep from >>> allocating so much memory? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "adt-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Xavier Ducrohet >> Android SDK Tech Lead >> Google Inc. >> http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com >> >> Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "adt-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
