On 09/02/2022 21:41, André Hartmann wrote:
Dear Toralf,
The jobs option was introduced in response to
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Fair enough.
You can fine tune that in the Projects > Build & Run > Build > Build
Steps. It should also be possible to add a smaller jobs option (e.g.
-j2) to the MAKEFLAGS variable so new projects use that.
I now notice that there is a "Parallel Jobs:" spinbox in that GUI.
I must have been blind or something, as I completely overlooked that
earlier. Perhaps I was looking to hard for an actual reference to "-j"...
Maybe it would be nice to be able to define the option in terms of the
available CPUs/cores, as opposed to setting a fixed value, but I can
live with the current solution.
> If I have 4 jobs with 4 cores, that can mean all of them are
> saturated, and the system becomes completely unresponsive.
I only have this problem if I specify more jobs than available cores.
Right.
I guess a job often won't be able to use all the full core capacity on
its own as it will also frequently have to wait for I/O. Apparently,
it's not like that for some of my projects/builds, however...
- Toralf
Best regards,
André
Am 09.02.22 um 11:13 schrieb Toralf Lund:
I'm using Qt Creator on a system that has 4 CPU cores. It seams like
that means "make" will always be run with argument "-j4". Is there a way
I can change the number 4 to something smaller? Where does the option
come from anyway?
A problem I have is that certain compile or link steps will use all the
capacity of one core, and parallel jobs typically start on separate
cores. If I have 4 jobs with 4 cores, that can mean all of them are
saturated, and the system becomes completely unresponsive. Meaning I
have to just sit and wait for the build to finish, while I prefer to run
it "in the background" (even if it it takes longer that way) and
continue to work on something else.
OS is CentOS Stream 8.
- Toralf
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