Re: Parallel downloads

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm not sure I understand: if I run
>
> guix build -M 4 vlc
>
> download progress bars are updated one at a time.  Or am I mistaken?

With -M4 you could potentially have 4 substitutions (downloads) going on
in parallel.

Tobias is right: the daemon works in terms of “jobs”, where a job can be
either a build or a substitution (a download).  ‘--max-jobs’ controls
that.

Ludo’.