Re: make: dynamic scaling of maxJobs ?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 06:55:48AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:56:27PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>  > It's almost like each parallel build should take its fair shares, where
>  > if you have 12 cpus there are 24 slots available, so each one can
>  > basically register that it's doing something piggy and then 24/N can be
>  > used for each.  (I haven't tried this.)
> 
> ...gosh, it's scheduling. Perhaps it should be in the kernel with the
> other pieces of the scheduler...

Like some features that shares out cpu time between users and not
processes (or lwps).

        David

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