From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15588 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2018 10:23:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15573 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2018 10:23:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=5.5, avail, locate, forever X-HELO: rama.dds.dk Received: from rama.dds.dk (HELO rama.dds.dk) (194.192.161.164) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:23:15 +0000 Received: from webmail.spejder.dk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by rama.dds.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B85121495 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:23:05 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:23:00 -0000 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Niels_Kristian_=22=C3=86nk=C3=A5=22_Jensen?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Gnu_make_option_=22=E2=80=98--max-load=5B=3Dload=5D?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99=22_-_is_it_supposed_to_work_under_cygwin=3F?= Message-ID: <6b067517eb08db5e6d735e6f966b41e4@internetgruppen.dk> X-Sender: nkj@internetgruppen.dk User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.8 X-SW-Source: 2018-12/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 Hello all, I am having a strange problem with Gnu make and one problem, which is a derived from it: 1) Sometimes, at seemingly random places in the make execution, "make -j`nproc` (parameters...)" simply stops. A process keeps running on one CPU, full load, forever. We have been trying lots of different versions of make and the cygwin1.dll, trying to locate anything that could be reproducing the behaviour, to no avail. We have seen this on Win7, Win Server 2012 and Win10. 2) As a work-around, I tried to replace option "-j" with "-l 5.5" (don't start new executors if load avg. is above 5.5.) This does not seem to work - execution time is almost equal to "-j1" that is just one executor. Is the "load" option supposed to work? I've only run it on systems without the "procps" package installed (I avoid packages, that are not needed). Best regards, Niels Kristian Jensen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple