Hi all,
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 16:27:06 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On 07/03/2018 03:49 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:12:10 +0200 Norbert Manthey <nmant...@amazon.de>
> > wrote:
> >> +build ()
> >> +{
> >> + local -r LOG_FILE="$1"
> >> + local -i STATUS=0
> >> +
> >> + make clean -j $(nproc) &> /dev/null
> >> + make -j $(nproc) &>> "$LOG_FILE" || STATUS=$?
> >> +
> >> + echo "build status: $STATUS" >> "$LOG_FILE"
> >> + echo "[$SECONDS] build status: $STATUS"
> >> + return "$STATUS"
> >> +}
> >
> > The script never sets nproc. So I guess this is a bare `make -j'.
> > When I type that on my (quite beefy) workstation I get eleventy xillion
> > processes and the machine locks up. Can't even wiggle the mouse.
> > After a 20 minute nap (thanks!) it was still comatose so I hit the big
> > button (who writes this junk??).
> >
> > So you might want to take an educated guess from /proc/cpuinfo here.
>
> or use
> nproc=`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN`
>
> or double it if you want to keep processes ready/waiting.I have a program called nproc on my system. It is part of coreutils. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell
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