Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:07:40PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > It's not a question of legislating; it's more a question of picking a > good option and writing the specification in policy. I fully agree with Wouter on this. Although the specification doesn't necessarily have to be in policy (

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 06:11:24PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2006-06-25 kello 16:36 +0200, Wouter Verhelst kirjoitti: > > It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built > > using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same > > time. This is a bit t

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Sure, even on a single CPU -jX (X > 1) can be faster, but it depends on > various factors, such as available memory, and other load on the > machine. Using -j is not something that should be on by default, but it > would be *really* nice if it were eas

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built > > using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same > > time. This is a bit troublesome for the poor m68k buildd, which is now > > suffering under High Load And C

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-06-25 kello 10:41 -0700, Tyler MacDonald kirjoitti: > kernel-package uses the CONCURRENCY_LEVEL envrionment variable for > this. And if I do a "CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4" on my single-CPU system, it does > actually go quite a bit faster. :) Sure, even on a single CPU -jX (X > 1) can be fa

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 16:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > DoS against the buildd? > There is none. But you may consider it as an attack against the > infrastructure. You on the other hand, might consider that developers might not have the malicious intent you infer, but perhaps just made an hones

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-06-25 kello 16:36 +0200, Wouter Verhelst kirjoitti: > It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built > using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same > time. This is a bit troublesome for the poor m68k buildd, which is now > suffering under High

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:36:08PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built > using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same > time. This is a bit troublesome for the poor m68k buildd, which is now > suffering under

make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, It has come to my attention that the gem package is currently built using 'make -j 4', to have four compiler processes running at the same time. This is a bit troublesome for the poor m68k buildd, which is now suffering under High Load And Constant Swapping (HLACS). I was going to file a flam