Re: python nproc vs MAKE_JOBS issues

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 04:16:53AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> There should also be a system-level way to get a default answer to
> "how many jobs should I spawn?" since this arises with everything that
> parallelizes (not just build tools) and both 1 and NCPUS are bad
> fallbacks.

But the answer depends highly on the purpose of parallization,
especially in case of builds, where it does also depend on many other
available resources (like enough RAM or available WORKDIR disk IO
throughput).

For most other cases NCPUS is a very good default.

Martin