Re: -l switch

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 19:16 -0500, Billy Patton wrote:
> I'm running with a -l 3.0 on a dual processor machine but only getting
> 1 job running at a time.  Top reveals that the load average is @ 1.2.
> 
> Is there some environment variable I need to set to get this to
> function correctly?

-l doesn't automatically enable parallel builds.  If you want parallel
builds you have to use -j.  If you want to restrict the number of jobs
run in parallel based on the load, you have to use both -l and -j.

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