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+ <B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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+<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 03/09/12 00:18 did gyre and gimble:
+&gt;<i> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Jose Jorge &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">lists.jjorge at free.fr</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Le 31/08/2012 11:40, Pascal Terjan a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Currently %make is expanded to make -j&lt;nb cpu&gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I'd like it to be replaced with make -l&lt;nb cpu&gt;
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Some activities, like USB transfers are seen as huge system load (I often
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> get more than 4 on a monocpu system, while is CPU is idle to compile. So I
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> think we may end with a side effect that build time will be longer....
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Currently I see the following cases:
+</I>&gt;<i> - 1 big job with parallel makefile (like kernel), it will probably run
+</I>&gt;<i> more builds in parallel as building 24 .o does not cause a load of 24
+</I>&gt;<i> - 2 big jobs with parallel makefile, it will probably reduce things as
+</I>&gt;<i> currently each of them run 24 builds in parallel, leading to a load of
+</I>&gt;<i> about 40, now the load will be 24
+</I>&gt;<i> - 1 big job and a small one: I am not sure there will be much change
+</I>&gt;<i> - 1 or 2 small jobs: no change
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> And yes the load is not only the cpu, but that's a good thing. If we
+</I>&gt;<i> have 40 processes trashing the disk it's better to not start more even
+</I>&gt;<i> if we have 20 cpu idling
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> But yes it needs to be tested
+</I>
+And of course in the context of the BS, the IO load will not be
+artificially high from USB type transfers so it will probably be &quot;real&quot; IO.
+
+Col
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