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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 -