Paolo Bonzini wrote: > 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).
So you mean, rather than the current situation of: $ yes . | head -n13 | xargs -n4 -P2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . xargs could try to distribute like: $ yes . | head -n13 | xargs -n4 -P2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hmm, it might be able to do that unconditionally? cheers, Pádraig.
