On 12/03/2015 03:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2015-12-03 12:14, Mcnamara, John: >> Also, if someone has some bandwidth it would be good to add an option >> to pass -j with an optional number to "make" in the script. > > We can use -j without any number: > "make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously". > It is a not so bad default. >
Hmm, my memory associates an unlimited -j to make with sudden death by fork-bomb. But that was a long time ago and on a different codebase (the kernel maybe), with DPDK on current hardware it doesn't seem that bad at all. OTOH we can also simply ask the system for a reasonable value, eg $ /usr/bin/getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN - Panu -