On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 21:06 +0000, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2022.01.05 20:22, Sam James wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 Jan 2022, at 19:02, Roy Bamford <neddyseag...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > Sam, > > > > > > Do users with FEATURES=distcc still have to opt out of this > > > MAKEOPTS clamping? > > > > > > > Great point! I think we could add an exemption for that and make it > > a > > noop or warning-only. > > > > Best, > > sam > > > > > > > Sam, > > You are building a better mousetrap here. That's not a reason to try. > > Do users of I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, who have already > opted to shoot themselves in both feet, get a free pass here? > > There are users who run emerge --jobs=X with MAKEOPTS='-jY" > and get firefox, thunderbird and libreoffice all building concurrently > as they allow X * Y MAKE threads, reduced by this proposed > throttling, still triggering the OOM. > > I don't think you can head that off beforehand. >
What's your proposed alternative?
