On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 21:14 -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote: > On 2021-04-11 12:19 p.m., Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > make already has -l option for limiting new instances if load average is > > too high, so it's only natural to add a RAM limiter too. > > > > -l [N], --load-average[=N], --max-load[=N] > > Don't start multiple jobs unless load is > > below N. > > > > In any case, patches welcome :) > > During today's Yocto technical call (1), > we talked about approaches to limiting the system load and avoiding > swap and/or OOM events. Here's what (little!) i recall from the > discussion, 9 busy hours later. > > In the short run, instead of independently maintaining changes to > configurations to limit parallelism or xz memory usage, etc, we > could develop an optional common include file where such limits > are shared across the community. > > In the longer run, changes to how bitbake schedules work may be needed. > > Richard says that there was a make/build server idea and maybe even a > patch from a while ago. It may be in one of his poky-contrib branches. > I took a few minutes to look but nothing popped up. A set of keywords to > search for might help me find it.
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/wipqueue4&id=d66a327fb6189db5de8bc489859235dcba306237 Cheers, Richard
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