RE: GNU make CPU utilization in cloud environments

2016-02-17 Thread Tamás Fülöp
It is just a virtual machine in the cloud, so I do not plan to create a distributed jobs, only parrallel ones on the same host. I would like to use only 1 job / 1 host architecture. You are right about the CPU capacity, but the strage thing is the following. The CPU utilization is below 1% wit

Re: GNU make CPU utilization in cloud environments

2016-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 14:51 +0100, Tamás Fülöp wrote: > This command utilizes at least 80% of the CPU on a local machine, but > not in the cloud environment. Wait, I think we were not clear what you meant by "cloud environment". GNU make supports _parallel_ jobs: that is, running multiple recipe

RE: GNU make CPU utilization in cloud environments

2016-02-17 Thread Tamás Fülöp
Hello everyone, I have played with the "-j" switch, but it did not affect the performance. I have tried with "-j 2", "-j" and without "-j" options, none of these improved the performance. I have also tried to set the priority level of the make.exe to "High" and "RealTime", but the CPU utilizati

Re: GNU make CPU utilization in cloud environments

2016-02-17 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 10:35 +0100, Tamás Fülöp wrote: > I am experiencing problems with the GNU make 3.81 in Amazon-like cloud > environment. The "make.exe" does not utilizes the virtual CPUs, the > utilization sits around 1% and that makes the building process really > slow. You haven't given us

GNU make CPU utilization in cloud environments

2016-02-17 Thread Tamás Fülöp
Hi everyone, I am experiencing problems with the GNU make 3.81 in Amazon-like cloud environment. The "make.exe" does not utilizes the virtual CPUs, the utilization sits around 1% and that makes the building process really slow. I have made the tests in the following environment: OS: Windows 7 x6