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Simon Willnauer commented on LUCENE-3667:
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-Dtests.sequential=true works good for me on restricted systems. But I agree I 
think we should have a setting that sets a upper bound no matter how many cpus 
are available.
                
> Consider changing how we set the number of threads to use to run tests.
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3667
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3667
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Mark Miller
>            Assignee: Mark Miller
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The current way we set the number of threads to use is not expressive enough 
> for some systems. My quad core with hyper threading is recognized as 8 CPUs - 
> since I can only override the number of threads to use per core, 8 is as low 
> as I can go. 8 threads can be problematic for me - just the amount of RAM 
> used sometimes can toss me into heavy paging because I only have 8 GB of RAM 
> - the heavy paging can cause my whole system to come to a crawl. Without 
> hacking the build, I don't think I have a lot of workarounds.
> I'd like to propose that switch from using threadsPerProcessor to 
> threadCount. In some ways, it's not as nice, because it does not try to scale 
> automatically per system. But that auto scaling is often not ideal (hyper 
> threading, wanting to be able to do other work at the same time), so perhaps 
> we just default to 1 or 2 threads and devs can override individually?

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