Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan 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-averag

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
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 >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
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, i

[gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread 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. But which load average does that check? One minute, five minutes or fift