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Feature request - better jobs control
From: |
Andrei Kopats |
Subject: |
Feature request - better jobs control |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:56:49 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) |
Hello.
Today I had a problem with GNU Make - it has key -j for control max jobs
count.
User can set particular count, or infinite.
With particular user must define count, but, user not always know the best.
With infinite - system could get frozen. Today I built project on system
with 2 Gb of RAM, and my computer got frozen because infinite jobs count
eaten all memory. As result, build longed 4 times more, than single job.
It will be fine, if make will support some intellectual mechanism for
detect optimal jobs count for the system, based on CPU cores count and
available memory.
I know, it is policy, not mechanism. But, I think it is very useful
feature. To conservative software usually replaced by more modern one.
Thanks in advance
- Feature request - better jobs control,
Andrei Kopats <=