Also:
# Number of simultaneous make jobs (commands) to use when building ports. This
# value may be set to 0 so the number of simultaneous make jobs will be set to
# the number of CPU cores that are automatically detected, or the number of GB
# of physical memory plus one, whichever is less.
buildmakejobs 0
> On Aug 20, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org>
> wrote:
> from macports.conf
> # Lowered scheduling priority to use for commands run during configure,
> # build, and destroot. Accepted values are 0 (normal priority) through
> # 20 (lowest priority).
> #buildnicevalue 0
>
> check out Apple command line utility:
> pmset noidle
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2015, at 3:13 PM, Jean-François Caron wrote:
>
>> 1) I want ports to build in parallel when possible, but I’d like to select a
>> maximum number of cores assigned to the job. My CPU has 8 cores with
>> hyperthreading, and when upgrading e.g. clang, my OS and apps are seriously
>> laggy. If could limit the number of cores assigned to the job, I’m guessing
>> this wouldn’t happen. According to my Googles, my only option is to disable
>> parallel builds entirely. Would it be feasible to add an extra option like
>> “buildmaxcores” or something?
>
>> 2) Since my OS is unusable during long builds, I walk away from the
>> computer, but then it goes to sleep the build is paused. The current advice
>> is to get a non-macports app called Caffeine to do some magic, or write a
>> custom port wrapper to use pmset noidle before and after the port command.
>> This should be an option in the MacPorts configuration somewhere, one
>> shouldn’t have to resort to 3rd-party apps or scripting to get
>> user-friendiness out of MacPorts.
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