On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: >> Hi, >> >> Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. >> >> --jobs and --load-average >> >> Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7 >> >> It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7. > > No, it will not limit the load to 1.7. It won't start new builds if > there are other builds running and loadavg is higher than 1.7 >
Er, that's what I supposed to mean. My question is which load average it checks? I'm assuming it checks for the 15 minute average? -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
