On 10/27/2009 01:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I already suggested to the xargs maintainer that `xargs -P` should be equivalent to xargs -P$(nproc).
I was thinking of an additional option that would automatically decrease -n so that the requested number of processes is started (then of course the load may not be well balanced).
`nproc` as an external command would still be useful though.
Possibly, but much less. Paolo
