On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:41:30PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
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> For kicks I tried to do better with distcc and EC2. That worked great
> until it started running a bunch of python scripts in the makefile -
> at -j15 or whatever I had it set to. Distcc really needs a solution
> for the fact that you can't pick a single optimum value for -j when
> gcc is only part of the build.
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from 'man make':
-l [load], --load-average[=load]
Specifies that no new jobs (commands) should be started if
there are others jobs running and the load average is at
least load (a floating-point number). With no argument,
removes a previous load limit.
