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[PATCH] gnu: icecat: honor parallel-job-count.

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Message #14 received at 66720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: Eric Bavier <bavier <at> posteo.net>, Jonathan Brielmaier
 <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>, divoplade <d <at> divoplade.fr>, Mark H Weaver
 <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 66720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#66720] [PATCH] gnu: icecat: honor parallel-job-count.
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:21:47 +0100

On Thu, Oct 26 2023, Eric Bavier wrote:

> While it's not a perfect proxy for system load, I feel like, in general,
> packages should honor the `--cores=N` build option.  If they take other
> things into consideration, we should try to work with that too.  Perhaps we
> could figure something out such that `--cores=N` sets an upper limit and
> icecat's `mach` is able to cap that further based on system virtual memory?

I understand and I agree.  I tested your patch and it works well.

divoplade, Jonathan, can you confirm that it fixes
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=44184 too?

Mark, would this improve building Icecat on your x200? (if I remember
correctly)

Thanks,
Clément

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