On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
No, the 1-minute. -- :wq
