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Any doc that suggest this behaviour?

• exciteabletom 6y ago
  From the man page: > If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously.
  • stewartesmith 6y ago
    What this practically means is that a plain "make -j" will spawn all the processes that could run concurrently. So if you're building 1,000 files, it'll spawn 1,000 processes. This can either be fine, or completely terrible, depending on the number of CPUs you have an the amount of memory each process uses.