On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Isaac Dupree <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >> >> Using -j$(cpunum) is a sane default that saves a lot of time to users. > > > I agree, but for the record, 'nice' and scheduling are no panacea in my > experience. It's fine for CPU loads, but compilations are also disk-heavy > (which mattered when I used a spinning disk) and sometimes RAM-heavy (-j8 on > my pet C++ project uses 2GB of RAM, which could push other programs I'm > using into swap). > > -Isaac Have you tried using ionice?
