Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: BTW: I am looking for suggestions on how to implement a parallel make that is allowed to call up to say 4 concurrent jobs. WOuld it be sufficient to check the loadaverage by calling getloadavg(3) to be = 4? what's wrong with make -j4 ?

Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: BTW: I am looking for suggestions on how to implement a parallel make that is allowed to call up to say 4 concurrent jobs. WOuld it be sufficient to check the loadaverage by calling getloadavg(3) to

Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK brian.ruth...@oracle.com wrote: what's wrong with make -j4 ? You are referring to a closed source solution. I suspect Roy was referring to GNU make, which is still open source isn't it? gmake is OpenSource, but it is

Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK brian.ruth...@oracle.com wrote: The current SunStudio equivalent is dmake (= Distributed Make) which can run parallel jobs, but AFAIK has the added bonus of being able to run on multiple systems as well,