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consider running make with nice, let the scheduler work for you

• arp242 3y ago
  Actually I do both: % alias make make='nice -n 20 make -j4' But I found that even with a nice level of 20 using all CPUs doesn't quite give me the responsiveness I want for other tasks.
  • onetimeuse92304 3y ago
    Put it in a container where you can explicitly limit CPU / memory usage? I run all builds in containers/vms anyway as I am too tired to keep my personal machine able to build hundreds of different things. It is better to have a dedicated development environment frozen for each of the projects I work on.
    • arp242 3y ago
      I just want to run make and not slow down Firefox or maybe some other things I'm doing. This simple alias I've had for over 20 years works, on all (Unix-y) systems. Why make everything a hypercomplex story?
  • wtallis 3y ago
    Make also has an option to only spawn new jobs when the load average is below a given value, which can be used to get make to reduce the number of jobs running in parallel when there are plenty of other processes using CPU time.