Re: Packages using more than their assigned MAKE_JOBS

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 10:19:13AM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> I don't have much time at the moment to dig into these, but my trunk builder
> is getting overloaded again, and I just happened to notice at least these
> two packages spawning more processes than their MAKE_JOBS allocates:
> 
>  shells/fish:
>     606373 /opt/local/bin/bmake -j 3 all
>       606477 bash
>         606519 /opt/local/bin/bmake -s -f CMakeFiles/Makefile2 all
>           774000 bash
>             774036 /opt/local/bin/bmake -s -f CMakeFiles/sphinx-docs.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/sph
>               774040 bash
>                 774074 cmake-pkgsrc-build/cargo/debug/xtask html-docs --fish-indent=/tmp/work/shells/f
>                   774359 /opt/local/bin/python3.13 /opt/local/bin/sphinx-build-3.13 -j auto -q -b html -
>                     791682 /opt/local/bin/python3.13 /opt/local/bin/sphinx-build-3.13 -j auto -q -b html -
>                     791913 /opt/local/bin/python3.13 /opt/local/bin/sphinx-build-3.13 -j auto -q -b html -
>                     791949 /opt/local/bin/python3.13 /opt/local/bin/sphinx-build-3.13 -j auto -q -b html -
>                     791987 /opt/local/bin/python3.13 /opt/local/bin/sphinx-build-3.13 -j auto -q -b html -
>                     792024 /opt/local/bin/python3.13 /opt/local/bin/sphinx-build-3.13 -j auto -q -b html -

I think I've fixed this.

IIUC this was only for generating man pages, so was this really a load problem?
 Thomas