Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> However my patch for sphinx -j1 did give good test results, too. >> Maybe in your case that would result in 8 sphinx calls with 1 thread >> each, which would be more appropriate for your machine. > > The right thing to do is to have one sphinx-build process and pass -j<N> > to that. [I wouldn't have minded being CC'd on this conversation...] I, too, have never seen the behavior Jani reports. I, too, would like to get rid of as much of the makefile hackery as possible, but it all did end up there for a reason. The business around parallelism was intended to make sphinx play well with other targets being built in the same make invocation. If you do a "make -j8 this that theother htmldocs" and there are five processes working on this, that, and theother, then sphinx should not create more than three. See 51e46c7a4007 for more. In Jani's case, it sounds like the job-slot reservation isn't working right somehow? jon
